Re: FullHD on wscons or anything else?

Luna <[email protected]> Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:43:39 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.general
Message-ID <i4sz7ilr5nf4xz4em7qde23ntxujxz226536bfhmlpn2nizdex@xa7k4x3ypk5l>
> I start NetBSD using grub2. I have set up its resolution to
> 1920x1080. Nice, so far. 
I assume this means you boot with grub's knetbsd command.
> 
> Then, when NetBSD wscons starts, the highest resolution I could
> achieve is only 1024x768.
> ...
> Question: Is it possible to use wscons or any other generic drivers
> to achieve 1920x1080 resolution on X? I don't care console resolution
> anyway. I just want to use my NetBSD box with a usable graphical
> resolution even without the hardware specific driver.
Hmmm. On my Alder lake laptop, the resolution from grub does carry to
wscons. How do you set the resolution in grub? I boot as follows:

	insmod ufs
	insmod part_gpt
	set gfxpayload=2560x1440,1920x1080,1024x768
	set root=(hd1,gpt2)
	knetbsd /netbsd --root=dk1
	boot

P.S. I don't actually know anything about NetBSD graphics, but I have
managed to get this to work.

-- luna