Re: Inspiron 7500 vs x.org server

From: Dimitry Andric (dimitry_at_andric.com)
Date: 01/30/05

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To: julian@FreeBSD.ORG (Julian Elischer)

    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.)

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