Re: Inspiron 7500 vs x.org server

From: Dimitry Andric <dimitry_at_andric.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:18:28 +0100
On 2005-01-30 at 21:56:50 Julian Elischer wrote:

> If anyone knows what the Linux "vga=793" or (whatever it is)
> kernel option does and whether there is somethign equivalent for freeBSD
> that would be interesting.

It sets VESA video mode 0x0219 (= 793-256 = 0x319-0x100), of which I'm
unsure what it is on your system. :)  You can probably set this
through vesa.ko, but I'm not sure how, there seems to be no
documentation... (vesa(4) is about the X.org vesa driver, afaics.)

Received on Sun Jan 30 2005 - 20:18:40 UTC

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