From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 14 11:27:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA12752 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 11:27:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA12745 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 11:27:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA27022; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 11:27:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 11:27:20 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: M Shariful Anam cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: console stuff In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, M Shariful Anam wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Doug White wrote: > | > | You have to teach vidcontrol/syscons how to switch to that mode. The > | > | command to change to modes beyond 80x25 are somewhat card-dependent. > | > > | > Is there any documentation on this? Like man page, doc or URL? > | > | Nope, only source. > > err.. I meant... pointers... > where can I find the source? what's the name of the package/program? Well, there's the source: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/isa/syscons.c If you install the kernel source it's at /sys/i386/conf/isa/syscons.c. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major