Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:36:44 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2. Can I get 128x48 (or similar) console screens? Message-ID: <46B1DDEC.4010508@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070802122029.GA17937@muc.de> References: <20070802122029.GA17937@muc.de>
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Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Is it possible I've missed something relevant? Or is there some sort of
> add-on utility which would give me consoles with (approximately) 128x48?
vidcontrol(1) -- it's part of the base system.
> My hardware is a desktop PC with a 1.2 GHz Athlon and a Matrox G400 AGP
> video card.
Should work fine. You may need to 'kldload vga' (see vga(4) and
syscons(4)) to get some of the higher res modes, or even build
yourself a customized kernel.
Cheers,
Matthew
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