Hi All,
Hope you are all having a good Sunday at the terminal
noob question again.
I have installed nvidia driver as pkg, Installed xfce and all configured and working fine. However, I find myself more at the console (i get distracted by too many windows) to configure my box.
I installed lynx and works fine.
80x25 is a bit restricting. So I read about vidcontrol(1), and Googled a lot and read the handbook and the examples in man pages. It just refuses to work for me. I just want something like 80x60 or any other mode.
The kernel is standard, sc(4) is loaded in the kernel with the hint as advised in man pages.
Vidcontrol always shows fb0 rather than my card. Is that normal?
It also shows a lot of modes supported but I cannot set any, keep saying something like "Operation not supported by device".
Card is nvidia GTX 560.
I installed from pkg, should I compile it from ports?
EDIT: I compiled from ports with same results.
Thanks
Hope you are all having a good Sunday at the terminal
noob question again.
I have installed nvidia driver as pkg, Installed xfce and all configured and working fine. However, I find myself more at the console (i get distracted by too many windows) to configure my box.
I installed lynx and works fine.
80x25 is a bit restricting. So I read about vidcontrol(1), and Googled a lot and read the handbook and the examples in man pages. It just refuses to work for me. I just want something like 80x60 or any other mode.
The kernel is standard, sc(4) is loaded in the kernel with the hint as advised in man pages.
Vidcontrol always shows fb0 rather than my card. Is that normal?
It also shows a lot of modes supported but I cannot set any, keep saying something like "Operation not supported by device".
Code:
fb0:
vga0, type:VESA VGA (5), flags:0x700ff
initial mode:24, current mode:24, BIOS mode:3
frame buffer window:0xb8000, buffer size:0x8000
window size:0x8000, origin:0x0
display start address (0, 0), scan line width:80
reserved:0x0
mode# flags type size font window linear buffer
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
24 (0x018) 0x00000001 T 80x25 8x16 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k
30 (0x01e) 0x00000001 T 80x50 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k
32 (0x020) 0x00000001 T 80x30 8x16 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k
34 (0x022) 0x00000001 T 80x60 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k
256 (0x100) 0x0000001f G 640x400x8 P 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 250k
257 (0x101) 0x0000001f G 640x480x8 P 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 300k
258 (0x102) 0x0000001b G 800x600x4 4 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0x00000000 234k
259 (0x103) 0x0000001f G 800x600x8 P 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 468k
260 (0x104) 0x0000001b G 1024x768x4 4 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0x00000000 384k
261 (0x105) 0x0000001f G 1024x768x8 P 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 768k
262 (0x106) 0x0000001b G 1280x1024x4 4 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0x00000000 640k
263 (0x107) 0x0000001f G 1280x1024x8 P 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 1280k
270 (0x10e) 0x0000001f G 320x200x16 D 8x8 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 125k
271 (0x10f) 0x0000001f G 320x200x32 D 8x8 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 250k
273 (0x111) 0x0000001f G 640x480x16 D 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 600k
274 (0x112) 0x0000001f G 640x480x32 D 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 1200k
276 (0x114) 0x0000001f G 800x600x16 D 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 937k
277 (0x115) 0x0000001f G 800x600x32 D 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 1875k
279 (0x117) 0x0000001f G 1024x768x16 D 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 1536k
280 (0x118) 0x0000001f G 1024x768x32 D 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 3072k
282 (0x11a) 0x0000001f G 1280x1024x16 D 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 2560k
283 (0x11b) 0x0000001f G 1280x1024x32 D 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 5120k
304 (0x130) 0x0000001f G 320x200x8 P 8x8 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 62k
305 (0x131) 0x0000001f G 320x400x8 P 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 125k
306 (0x132) 0x0000001f G 320x400x16 D 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 250k
307 (0x133) 0x0000001f G 320x400x32 D 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 500k
308 (0x134) 0x0000001f G 320x240x8 P 8x8 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 75k
309 (0x135) 0x0000001f G 320x240x16 D 8x8 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 150k
310 (0x136) 0x0000001f G 320x240x32 D 8x8 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 300k
317 (0x13d) 0x0000001f G 640x400x16 D 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 500k
318 (0x13e) 0x0000001f G 640x400x32 D 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 1000k
352 (0x160) 0x0000001f G 1280x800x8 P 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 1000k
353 (0x161) 0x0000001f G 1280x800x32 D 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe9000000 4000k
I installed from pkg, should I compile it from ports?
EDIT: I compiled from ports with same results.
Thanks
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