From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 6 20: 9:47 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 20:09:42 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0180437B401 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 20:09:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eB749Ij02584; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 22:09:18 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 22:09:18 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: flag Cc: Allan Dib , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Higher resolution text mode Message-ID: <20001206220918.A26061@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20001204171835.A4798@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: ; from "flag" on Wed Dec 6 19:00:27 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: dan@dan.emsphone.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Dec 06), flag said: > On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: > > vidcontrol -f 8x8 iso-8x8 > > vidcontrol 80x50 > > > > I prefer the swiss-8x8 font and VGA_90x50 myself. > > I tried the swiss font and it worked, but not the VGA_90x50 mode: > > [root@MoonSpell flag]#vidcontrol VGA_90x50 > vidcontrol: cannot set videomode: Operation not supported by device Ah. I forgot. You need to recompile your kernel with options VGA_WIDTH90 # support 90 column modes before that will work. > Anyway, how can I know which font/videomode I can use? If any of the modes in the vidcontrol manpage complain, make sure you've got an appropriate font loaded. That's about it. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message