Re: FullHD on wscons or anything else?

Fekete Zoltán <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:10:04 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2026-07-18 11:43 időpontban Luna ezt írta:
>> 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

Thank you for the answers so far.

Problem solved. I've put GRB_GFXMODE=1920x1080 into /etc/default/grub on 
my co-existing linux OS previously. However this option does not inherit 
to the custom NetBSD part.

So, I've put set gfxpayload=1920x1080 directly to the custom NetBSD 
config part.
And, here we go, it works.

Regards,
FeZ