feleven
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- Feb 17, 2014
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I think this might be a DQOTD, but I can't seem to dope it out on my own:
When FreeNAS boots up, the text scrolling down the server monitor is quite large and extends below the bottom of the screen. The connection between motherboard and monitor is an old PCIe video board with VGA and DVI connectors, and I chose the VGA connection just cause I figured it being ancient and probably fully debugged by now, it would not present any hardware problems. Right. :)
I know I can adjust the horizontal and vertical size of the image on the monitor itself (well, actually it won't let me for some reason, but whatever), but how do I set the VGA resolution from FreeNAS? Its not a BIOS setting (I looked), which makes sense as the card is external to the mobo.
Right now the monitor comes up in 720 x 400, and I always get an on-screen reminder that I should set the monitor resolution to "native" 1920 x 1080. The manual says nothing about that, so I assume they expect the OS to do that. Just in case it made a difference, I tried plugging into the video card's DVI connector - but its dead, so I assume again that the OS has to activate it first.
So - I assume there is a FreeNAS or FreeBSD function that controls video output parameters. I'm searching for such an animal, but if anyone here can nudge me in the right direction, I'd sure appreciate it.
FreeNAS does such a great job during boot-up finding all the hardware and communicating with it without bothering me for drivers or anything, so I have to believe this is a simple setting somewhere in the OS.
Rod
When FreeNAS boots up, the text scrolling down the server monitor is quite large and extends below the bottom of the screen. The connection between motherboard and monitor is an old PCIe video board with VGA and DVI connectors, and I chose the VGA connection just cause I figured it being ancient and probably fully debugged by now, it would not present any hardware problems. Right. :)
I know I can adjust the horizontal and vertical size of the image on the monitor itself (well, actually it won't let me for some reason, but whatever), but how do I set the VGA resolution from FreeNAS? Its not a BIOS setting (I looked), which makes sense as the card is external to the mobo.
Right now the monitor comes up in 720 x 400, and I always get an on-screen reminder that I should set the monitor resolution to "native" 1920 x 1080. The manual says nothing about that, so I assume they expect the OS to do that. Just in case it made a difference, I tried plugging into the video card's DVI connector - but its dead, so I assume again that the OS has to activate it first.
So - I assume there is a FreeNAS or FreeBSD function that controls video output parameters. I'm searching for such an animal, but if anyone here can nudge me in the right direction, I'd sure appreciate it.
FreeNAS does such a great job during boot-up finding all the hardware and communicating with it without bothering me for drivers or anything, so I have to believe this is a simple setting somewhere in the OS.
Rod