From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 7 22:48:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bilbo.in.mat.cc (bilbo.in.mat.cc [212.43.217.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E86F337B403 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 22:48:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bilbo.in.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bilbo.in.mat.cc (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B87771183; Wed, 8 May 2002 07:48:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: from sauron (sauron.in.mat.cc [212.43.217.122]) by bilbo.in.mat.cc (Postfix) with ESMTP id 542DA71183; Wed, 8 May 2002 07:48:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 07:48:13 +0200 From: Mathieu Arnold To: chris@graham.shacknet.nu Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: setting console to 80x50 res Message-ID: <155056578.1020844093@sauron> In-Reply-To: <200205080513.g485D0eb053639@graham.shacknet.nu> References: <200205080513.g485D0eb053639@graham.shacknet.nu> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.0 (Win32) X-wazaaa: True, true MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --On mercredi 8 mai 2002 00:13 -0600 Chris Graham wrote: > i was wondering if anyone knew how to make the text-mode console run in > 80x50 resolution, instead of the default 80x25. i've changed my > /etc/ttys lines from cons25 to cons50, but that didn't do anything. i > can't find anything in the manual, but i'm pretty sure it can be done, > at least i remember it being done back in 3.0 or so. thanx! > -chris I believe vidcontrol 80x50 is what you want. Look at the allscreens_flags parameter in your rc.conf. -- Mathieu Arnold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message