From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 5 18: 9:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maild.telia.com (maild.telia.com [194.22.190.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C716E37B401 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 18:09:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by maild.telia.com (8.11.2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f56193l09297 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 03:09:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ertr1013.student.uu.se (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA15965 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 03:09:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 15244 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Jun 2001 01:08:46 -0000 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 03:08:46 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: "Christopher W. Aiken" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: vidcontrol help Message-ID: <20010606030846.A15223@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: "Christopher W. Aiken" , FreeBSD Questions References: <20010605203744.S595-100000@bigdaddy.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010605203744.S595-100000@bigdaddy.localdomain>; from cwaiken@icubed.com on Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:40:31PM -0400 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 Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:40:31PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > I'm trying to get a 90x43 display on my consol window. > I tried everything I could think of but can not get > any displays except 80x25 and 80x30. I tried: > vidcontrol 90x42 Read the man page for vidcontrol(1) where they list the possible modes and then try 'vidcontrol VGA_90x43' and see if that works. (It works for me at least.) It is also possible that your graphics card only supports a few text modes. There is not much demand for text mode today so many manufacturers don't bother to do anything fancy. > > and vidcontrol just comes back with some help. > > Here is what I've done so far. Any one know what > I'm doing wrong? BTW I'm curious why no VESA modes > are listed below in the "-i mode" output. > > I rebuilt a new kernel with: > options VGA_WIDTH90 > options VESA > > I added these lines to my /etc/rc.conf: > font8x8="cp437-8x8.fnt" > font8x14="cp437-8x14.fnt" > font8x16="cp437-8x16.fnt" > > After a reboot (sorry, old habits are hard to break) > vidcontrol reports: [snip] -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message