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Hello, I'm trying to change the console resolution to anything different from the default "640x400" and i have some problems. When i run vidcontrol -i mode i got 511 different modes, all with the same resolution 671404428x671404428 but i cannot change to any of that. Running vidcontrol -i...

Hi, I'm trying to get FreeBSD to play nicely on my eeePC 900AX. I'm using xfce4 and starting it using $ startxfce4 That's all good, the correct video driver is chosen etc. But when I "log out", I get a black screen instead of the expected shell prompt. The prompt is actually there and I can...

Hi to all! I am new to FreeBSD, and I have followed this guide (http://www.freebsdworld.gr/files/install10-us.pdf) to install and configure the system. I need to use the portuguese-brazilian (pt-br) keyboard layout, when I started the installation, a screen appeared asking what layout I wish...

I have done a little bit of searching around on this without luck. I apologize for the weak effort, but I am sick right now and don't feel like doing a lot of reading. Is there a way to enter a virtual console (tty?) while in an X environment? I'm looking for something like "Ctrl+Alt+F1" that...

Good day All! Friends, whether somebody can tell to me, is any work on support of Unicode in text utilities of base system is conducted? For example it is impossible to edit the text using the excellent ee editor if in this text there are Unicode symbols. Since we have full unicode aware...

Hello, I am new to FreeBSD. One of the first annoying problems I have found is the "console beep". I have found online several ways to disable it, but they seem not to work for me: kbdcontrol -b off doesn't do anything, keybell="off" (inside rc.conf) doesn't do anything, sysctl...