Having installed FreeBSD-12.0 in a Parallels virtual machine on a 2018 Mac mini running Mojave 10.14.4, the screen resolution defaulted to 1024x768 which was less than ideal on a 24" monitor which does 1920x1080.
After searching for hints I came across suggestions to use:
mode X
gop set X
efi_max_resolution="XxY"
in /boot/loader.conf.local.
To check the modes available, at the boot loader prompt
That something turned out to be
None of this seems to be documented anywhere official (eg man page for loader.conf) so I might have to lodge a doc PR.
After searching for hints I came across suggestions to use:
mode X
gop set X
efi_max_resolution="XxY"
in /boot/loader.conf.local.
To check the modes available, at the boot loader prompt
gop list. This showed 10 possible modes the closest to 1920x1080 being mode 10 which was 1920x1200. This can be set at the loader prompt with gop set 10. However, to have it set permanently one needs to add something to /boot/loader.conf.local.That something turned out to be
efi_max_resolution="1920x1200". The other suggestions above had no effect.None of this seems to be documented anywhere official (eg man page for loader.conf) so I might have to lodge a doc PR.
