RedBear
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Title says it all. Ever since I first started installing and booting FreeNAS (the two most recent 9.3 versions are all I've worked with so far) on my ThinkServer TS440, I have noticed that several characters of text end up being displayed off the edges of the screen. It seems to happen on all four edges of the screen to varying degrees.
Being a "server", the TS440 has only a VGA connector built in. The BIOS screens and other bootable things like Linux installers I've tried on this machine don't seem to have this issue with stretching off the physical VGA display.
I've tried two different LCD monitors, one widescreen monitor with (I think) 1680x1050 native resolution, and an older 4:3 style monitor with (I think) 1024x768 resolution. I've tried auto-adjust and manual adjustments on the monitor itself but that just stretched the displayed image even more and made the issue worse.
Are there some boot flags or something that I can set to get FreeBSD/FreeNAS to be more usable on the VGA console? None of this is an issue most of the time of course because I'm either using the web GUI or SSH, but it's just irritating not having a proper interface when I'm sitting right in front of the machine.
Being a "server", the TS440 has only a VGA connector built in. The BIOS screens and other bootable things like Linux installers I've tried on this machine don't seem to have this issue with stretching off the physical VGA display.
I've tried two different LCD monitors, one widescreen monitor with (I think) 1680x1050 native resolution, and an older 4:3 style monitor with (I think) 1024x768 resolution. I've tried auto-adjust and manual adjustments on the monitor itself but that just stretched the displayed image even more and made the issue worse.
Are there some boot flags or something that I can set to get FreeBSD/FreeNAS to be more usable on the VGA console? None of this is an issue most of the time of course because I'm either using the web GUI or SSH, but it's just irritating not having a proper interface when I'm sitting right in front of the machine.