Setting console resultion

[@lbutlr]

I'm not sure why this is so hard, but I've read dozens of pages and threads on setting up the console to boot into something other than VGA 80x24 and I can't get anything to change the resolution.

I have an old Core 2 duo machine with a 27" screen. Once I change by boot.conf to use sc instead of vt, I can see the mode that I want (1920x1440x32) but I cannot get the screen to change.

vidcontrol mode 
This is a fresh install of 11.1.

If I try to load the intel driver, the screen goes blank.

The onboard video connector not he machine is VGA, so even though the monitor supports higher resolutions, I don't think those would work.

I've also tried 1024x600, just to see if I can get *something* to work.

Every attempt requires changing /boot/loader.conf and then rebooting, so it gets very aggravating very quickly, and I can't find consistent information since most of the pages i've found refer to FreeBSD 9.x or 10.x (or sometimes earlier) and it appears a lot has changed in 11.x.

I did manage to get a screensaver to load, which switches resolutions, but I can't get the console to show anything but 80x24 text which it overscan on the screen so the first and last character positions are clipped.