From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 19 14: 9:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from vali.uas.alaska.edu (vali.uas.alaska.edu [137.229.150.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE5FD37B72E for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:09:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from russ.pagenkopf@uas.alaska.edu) Received: from antarctica.jun.alaska.edu [137.229.156.140] (HELO uas.alaska.edu) by vali.uas.alaska.edu (AltaVista Mail V2.0r/2.0r BL25r listener) id 0000_006a_38fe_206d_3a7d; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:09:01 -0800 Message-ID: <38FE206E.69B03EB6@uas.alaska.edu> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:09:02 -0800 From: Russ Pagenkopf X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: video on its side Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hiya all, Let's see, how do I frame this question? Well, let me tell you what I'd like to do and maybe folks could gently push me in the right direction. :) I want to take a monitor running at 640x480 and physically turn it on its side (yes, I *can* do this :) and then I want to display the text on the screen in that orientation ie. 480x640. I'd also like to be able to change the number of rows and columns to something like 55 columns by 45 lines. Text only applications, X need not apply. I'm not quite sure where to begin. I've been reading over man pages and everything I've found so far hasn't said diddly boo about it unless I'm missing something blindingly obvious (entirely possible). I haven't seen nor could I find anything in the mailing list archives either. I'm guessing that a new font that fits my dimensions will be needed and maybe a partial rewrite of a display driver? Apologies if this should be posted to hardware. Be gentle, newbie with this stuff. ;) Russ Pagenkopf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message