Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:48:06 -0800 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't get 132 columns in single-user mode Message-ID: <3AA81A36.15628.2E240E@localhost>
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On 8 Mar 2001, at 20:42, I wrote: > When I boot single-user mode (4.2 RELEASE) I can't get vidcontrol to > set the 132x43 mode, which works fine otherwise. I get: > > vidcontrol: cannot set videomode: Invalid argument > > All the usual vidcontrol commands work but "vidcontrol 132x43". > > I tried manually loading the font files two different ways, figuring > something like rc.conf wasn't being parsed, but it didn't help: > > vidcontrol -f 8x16 swiss-8x16 > vidcontrol -f 8x16 /usr/share/syscons/fonts/swiss-8x16.fnt > > OK.. I'm a dumb bunny. I was loading the 8x16 font manually but 132x43 requires the *8x8* font. When I loaded that instead of the 8x16 font shown above, it works. Sorry for the redundancy. :-) -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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