amd64 7.0R: can the console do better than 80x25?

No one has any ideas?

On Sat, 3 May 2008 23:05:50 -0700 (PDT), googlegroups@sensation.net.au
wrote:

>As per the subject. I've done some googling but so far I've only come
>across some information that is specific to i386, or earlier FreeBSD
>releases.
>
>I've tried adding "options SC_PIXEL_MODE" to the kernel config but
>"vidcontrol -i mode" still only shows a single 80x25 entry. "options
>VESA" is not supported by amd64.

VESA drivers required to set the console to anything other than the
standard 80x25 display do not exist in 64-bit versions. If you want
to run yesterday's technology today, you would have to run FreeBSD
32-bit, for which VESA drivers exist.

These days, people who are fussy about diddling with the console
display, ususally run x.org.

>
>Thanks for any assistance.