framebuffer console for OpenBSD?
 

I've been wracking my brains here trying to find a way to pass a kernel option on boot, someting like linux's "vga=773" to enable a framebuffer console at 800x600 or even better at 1024x768...


Anyone have any luck with this? I have a suspicion it relates to passing something to wsdisplay or changing a setting in 'config /bsd' to get it to be what I want, but some help would be delightful!

Thanks!

P.S. - got a 3.4 openbsd install on a floppy based old ass laptop COMPLETE in 15 mins via FTP! All devices worked perfect!
FANTASTIC!

Thanks for the links to some information. The second link offered, the FAQ page from openbsd.org, was quite helpful for a number of interesting reasons, such as utilizing a serial console (which is something I need to do soon), as well as some other tweaks, but I'm not sure I found any good answers about utilizing the framebuffer.
The information that came closest was part "7.6 - How do I use a console resolution of 80x50? (i386)" but that isn't exacly what I'm looking for.

I suppose I should just assume that a frame buffer is simply out of the question. Oh well!

On some (many) Linux systems that use KMS and have a framebuffer based console, users in the video group can read that framebuffer, so if root is doing something on the console, users can view that. In X users can see all keystrokes on the same X Server. In short Linux has weak security, for many derivatives their priorities are vastly different to that of OpenBSD.

You've dredged up a 14-year old thread?

(OpenBSD added the efifb(4) framebuffer driver for EFI-booting amd64 systems in 2015, released in 2016 with OpenBSD 5.9.)