I've been trying to change the resolution on my terminal to 1024x768 on my laptop. I read on the Internet that I should compile the kernel with:

options VESA options SC_PIXEL_MODE

and so I did. After that I tried to set the resolution with ``vidcontrol''. It didn't work very nicely, though. The command ``vidcontrol -i mode'' gives me a list of possible modes. This are the ones I' interested in:

261 (0x105) 0x0000000b G 1024x768x8 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0x00000000 1024k 278 (0x116) 0x0000000b G 1024x768x15 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0x00000000 1024k 279 (0x117) 0x0000000b G 1024x768x16 1 8x16 0xa0000 64k 64k 0x00000000 1024k

But doing ``vidcontrol MODE_261'' the program says the operation is not supported by the device, 278 will get me to a weird screen where I can change to other ttys, but I keep seeing what was on the old tty when I go back to the one I ran vidcontrol. And 279 spawns a black screens and I get stuck there, the only solution is a reboot. The command ``vidcontrol VESA_800x600'' is the only one which worked so far.

Am I missing some configuration? Is this kinda stuff limited to a few hardware? Note that I do have xorg with 1024x768 resolution.