Add information on how to change the console video modes.

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       </note>
     </sect2>
+
+    <sect2 id="consoles-vidcontrol">
+      <title>Changing Console Video Modes</title>
+
+      <para>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:</para>
+
+      <programlisting>OPTIONS VESA
+OPTIONS SC_PIXEL_MODE</programlisting>
+
+      <para>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 &man.vidcontrol.1; utility.  To
+	get a list of supported video modes, type the following in a
+	root console:</para>
+
+      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>vidcontrol -i mode</userinput></screen>
+
+      <para>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 in a root console,
+	as in this example:</para>
+
+      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>vidcontrol MODE_279</userinput></screen>
+
+      <para>If the new video mode is acceptable, it can be permanently
+	set on boot by including the following in your
+	<filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename> file, again using the above
+	example:</para>
+
+      <programlisting>allscreens_flags="MODE_279"</programlisting>
+    </sect2>
   </sect1>
 
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