Possible to change resolution of graphical boot?

[auricle]

Is it possible to change the resolution and refresh rate of the vesa driver used at boot? If I enable the options in my /boot/loader.conf (they are disabled by default), I get the graphical boot screen as normal but once booted I get an 'out of range' error on my monitor if I change to one of the other terminals using CTL+F1-4.

I don't know where the configuration file is to cure this.

[bigfatgeek]

I was interested in this too, but after reading (below) from the FreeBSD handbook, I thought I'd wait a while before I bomb my system. I hope someone knows an easier way...
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/...book.html#BOOT

3.2.6 Changing Console Video Modes

The FreeBSD console default video mode may be adjusted to 1024x768, 1280x1024, or any other size supported by your graphics chip and monitor. To use a different video mode, you first must recompile your kernel and include two additional options:

options VESA
options SC_PIXEL_MODE

Once the kernel has been recompiled with these two options, you can then determine what video modes are supported by your hardware by using the vidcontrol(1) utility. To get a list of supported video modes issue the following:

# vidcontrol -i mode

The output of this command is a list of video modes that are supported by your hardware. You can then choose to use a new video mode by passing it to vidcontrol(1) in a root console:

# vidcontrol MODE_279

If the new video mode is acceptable, it can be permanently set on boot by setting it in the /etc/rc.conf file:

allscreens_flags="MODE_279"

[TerryP]

Actually that is probably the best way but it shouldn't effect any thing until the resource configuration phase of booting, e.g. running /etc/rc.local, scripts in /etc/rc.d/, and whereever the local_startup variable in /etc/defaults/rc.conf (or an override of it) points to (typically /usr/local/etc/rc.d, /usr/Programs/rc.d (for PBI)).