changing resolution

hello. i have an old dell inspiron 3800 laptop which i just bought and i had redhat running perfectly (x-windows i mean) on it. when i installed freebsd...and then fluxbox, it loads the wm and fluxbox works but the quality sux. im more or less a newb to *bsd so i have no clue how to change the resolution/quality.

just so you know, the quality was fine on redhat but on bsd it can barely display gradients...so i am sure there is a way to set it to 32bit color depth or something???

thanks a lot...kevin

I ain't no guru in bsd or nothing like that, but there is XF86Config(-4) in /etc/X11/ and thats where you set all the settings like resolution/color depth etc. Vi it, /Screen, and set your default depth.
The problem might be with bsd not recognizing your video card and applying default-safe values, so check if it's supported and may be get new drivers.

ok another question. would this file (/etc/XF86Config) in freebsd be the same as the one created in RedHat? I don't really know how to get the specs...but I was just thinking I could copy the one from RedHat and see if that worked....any ideas? speculation? etc...kevin

Yeah they'll be the same (and it's /etc/X11/XF86config(-4), note the X11) as long as you have the same hardware and x version installed with the same parameters.

Best way to get specs is to check with your manual, or like I my case when I didn't have one go online and see what you card/monitor can do.

i may have a different solution...but i cant find any decent documentation.

framebuffer = 791 (1024x768x16)

my friend told me to do this...but does anyone know the syntax for adding it into the kernel? i couldnt even find this option in LINT so i really dont know....kevin

okay after looking into some things...i found i need

OPTIONS VESA (something here i guess)

so i just need to figure out the syntax...i would assume i just put VESA=791 or nothing at all...thanks for the help

Sorry, don't know anything about framebuffer. But I would expect vesa to be under driver for you vid and not under options as vesa is generic video driver... Have you tried running 'XFree86 --configure' or xconfigurator?