VT(vga): text 80x25
vtvga0: <VT VGA driver> on motherboard
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> mem 0xdd000000-0xddffffff,0xde800000-0xde803fff,0xde000000-0xde7fffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci8
vgapci0: Boot video device
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff pnpid PNP0900 on isa0
This output you provided shows that you are presently configured in
text mode only.
Note the line above that says
VT(vga): text 80x25 -- This means 80 character columns x 25 character rows. It tells nothing about
graphics screen resolution. Please let me try and answer some of your earlier questions:
Graphics screen resolution is specified in pixels, not characters. For example: 1024x768
(graphics mode, in pixels)
Screen character dimension is specified in characters, not pixels. For example: 80x25
(text mode, in characters)
For comparison, my laptop monitor has a default screen resolution of 1366x768, but my "virtual terminal" (vt) screen character dimensions are the same as yours: 80x24.
For further comparison, here is my VT line from my dmesg output:
VT(efifb): resolution 1366x768
A FreeBSD system which is capable of graphical output, like my laptop, will be running in text mode on the console (/dev/ttyv0), but will usually display graphics on a different virtual terminal. Typically, graphics are displayed on /dev/ttyv8.
If I press CTRL ALT F1 I see my text console output on /dev/ttyv0.
If I press CTRL ALT F9 I see my graphics output on /dev/ttyv8.
In answer to some more of your earlier questions, after looking at screenshots for
SmokePing and
BPYTOP, it appears you need
graphics mode to display those programs, SmokePing in particular. Looking at the link you provided to the
PRIMERGY RX300 S7 System Configurator guide, there's an optional "NVIDIA NVS300" graphics card which you don't seem to have, according to your
pciconf output. This guide also mentions a "S26361-F2748-E637 PY VGA LP card 256MB PCI-e x1" which doesn't seem to show up in your output either. Maybe this is another name for the "Matrox MGA G200e" card you do have? I don't know, and it's all very confusing to me, too.
This
Remote Management Controller User's Guide I found includes a long list of Microsoft, Red Hat, SUSE, and Intel LANDesk operating systems, but doesn't mention FreeBSD as a supported operating system, and leaves me wondering if this iRMC server software has ever been successfully installed on any FreeBSD system. Do you know if it has?
I agree with
astyle that your first order of business should be to get graphics running on this hardware. If you can get that to happen, then maybe
SirDice or
Phishfry can help you fix your maximum display resolution-- personally, I've never been able to change mine to anything other than 1366x768, so I can't really help you there.
Alternatively, maybe you could get the server running in text mode, and then just use some other computer to remotely manage your remote management controller console. Whatever you try next, you can check the output of
dmesg | grep VT to see what your default resolution is going to be-- because, as long it keeps saying
VT(vga): text 80x25 I don't think you'll be able to run any graphics programs on your console. I could be wrong-- it wouldn't be the first time. Good luck with it in any case.
One other point: it seems unlikely
to me that a nearly obsolete graphics driver like VGA would provide a default resolution higher than 1600x1200, even on a widescreen monitor. But I could be wrong about that too.
Edited to add:
Please provide the output of:
pciconf -lv | grep -A 1 -B 3 display
and
uname -a
Thanks
en.wikipedia.org