[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to get a usable console on OI?

[Volker A. Brandt]

Andy Fiddaman writes:
> On Tue, 26 Jan 2021, Volker A. Brandt wrote:
> ; > >   loader_resolution=1280x1024x8
> ; > >   boot_resolution=1280x1024x8
> ; > Thanks for your reply, Volker!
> ; > I dumped the above 2 lines to /boot/loader.conf (actually 1920x1200)
> ; > but they were ignored.
> ;
> ; Not sure if they would work there.  The tried and true way is to create
> ; /boot/conf.d and put those lines into /boot/conf.d/loader-args (that's
> ; the name I use).
> 
> Setting the resolutions like this is an OmniOS feature which hasn't been
> upstreamed, so it unfortunately won't work in OpenIndiana.

Ah, thanks for the info.  Goes to show that I need to do more wit OI.
The tem.* variables do work in OI, though.


Regards -- Volker
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