Re: Green console on Dell flat panel 153 monitor

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Eric wrote:
> On Thu, 3 May 2007 19:53:47 -0700 (PDT)
> Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
>
> > :The green tint goes away after I start X, and when I close X and go back 
> > :into console, the console is the normal black and white.  Its not a 
> > :hardware issue, since the problem doesnt replicate in other BSD's (other 
> > :than Free) or in Slackware or DOS.
> >
> >     That is really odd.  Well, we do inherit FreeBSD's console driver so
> >     it makes sense to some degree.  But green?  Well... before DPMS there
> >     was a monitor standard for green-channel shutdown, for screen savers.
> >     Maybe its related to that?   I don't know, it's weird.
> >
> >     Try setting the video mode with vidcontrol, without going into X,
> >     and see if that clears it up.
> >
> > 					-Matt
> > 					Matthew Dillon 
> > 					<dillon@backplane.com>
> Is there a way to set vidcontrol during start-up?  I played with it using VMWare but after rebooting it goes back to the old video mode.  If the same happens with a regular hard drive install I don't think it will solve the issue.

Yea, try putting something like this in your rc.conf:

allscreens_flags="80x25"

Sascha

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