Most of us have a decent LCD monitor and it will be nice that we can use the high resolution inside the console. Under FreeBSD, it was not possible for AMD64. From FreeBSD 8 Stable and forward, the vesa driver is supported in the kernl option! Thank you for the FreeBSD team. This is such a nice work. To enable vesa for the console, add this to your kernel config file:
options VESA
options SC_PIXEL_MODE
and install your new kernel. After that you can check with vidcontrol -i mode, you can see several high resolution available. To use a 800x600, do:
vidcontrol VESA_800x600
check the manual page for vidcontrol, you might need to load different fonts for different screen resolutions.
reference:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/consoles.html
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=9449
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