7.2 vesa only allows max resolution of 800x600

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kpedersen

Hello All,

I have noticed that since 7.2 release, the vesa driver only allows up to 800x600. This seems like a regression? or is there a reason?

Its just a bit of a pain when using on a Virtual Machine.

Best Regards,

Karsten
 
/usr/src/usr/sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.c doesn't seem to have a VESA mode higher than 800x600.
As a datum: I used to use MODE_279 (or something terriffically similar) back when I ran i386. I haven't the least memory if that was 800x600 or 1024x768.
(My only machine now is amd64 and I don't care to run i386, sorry)
 
Perhaps you are looking for SC_PIXEL_MODE for sc(4) usable only for i386.
As I can remember I could do 1280x800 in console with 8x14 fonts.
Back in that days it was too slow and it caused sound corruption when moving mouse pointer in console ....
Maybe I will try again with 8.0, where lot of changes in that area happened recently(but still some work remains).
 
I am using Virtual Box on a RHEL5 host.

I could have sworn I remember running XFCE in 1024x768 resolution at around 7.0-release time.

I will try out the VMWare video drivers. Cheers!
 
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