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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!swsbe6.switch.ch!surfnet.nl!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!ott.istar!istar.net!tor.istar!east.istar!news.nstn.ca!newsflash.concordia.ca!newsfeed.pitt.edu!news.pgh.net!usenet From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Support for fixed-scan monitors Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 21:57:37 -0400 Organization: Dis- Lines: 25 Message-ID: <32210491.41C67EA6@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: w2xo.pgh.pa.us Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) I've had this little annoyance for a while, and recently became aware that others did also...namely, I have a large monitor (19 inch) that is representative of many available surplus, etc, that are relatively high resolution and support scan rates like 1024 X 900 or so, but do not support 640 x 480 (standard VGA) resolution. The only way to use them with FreeBSD is to set up the proper scan rates in the XF86Config file and run them under X11. The major drawback to this is that you can't see boot messages, which are in 640x480 scan, and you can't use the virtual terminals. X works just fine. If Ihave problems and X won't come up, I have to dig out the old VGA 12 incher and plug it in to see what I'm doing. This is not good! I poked around through syscons.c, looking for where the VGA card gets initialized to 640x480, and realized that it probably is just leaving it the way the bios set it up during the system bootstrap. Has anyone played with this or have any info? Obviously, the virtual terminals work in 640x480, and must reset the VGA card resolution when you hit ALT-whatever, so I must be missing something in syscons.c. ??? -Jim Durham