Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 13:52:02 +0200 (MET DST) From: sos@FreeBSD.org To: mgessner@winc.com Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: console control Message-ID: <199605241152.NAA29921@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <199605241121.HAA06277@home.winc.com> from "mgessner@winc.com" at May 24, 96 07:21:39 am
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In reply to mgessner@winc.com who wrote:
>
> Hi, all,
>
> I'd very much like to get my console screens running at 43 or
> 50 lines like I'm supposed to be able to do. I've tried 2 things:
>
> 1) set term=cons50
> 2) vidcontrol VGA_80x50
>
> Usually, vidcontrol gets upset at that point, saying "invalid mode."
> Can anyone help me out here?
You need to load a 8x8 size font before you can use it :)
see man vidcontrol how to load a font.
> Also, can anyone tell me how I can get my already configured
> Logitech mouse to work on psm0? I rebuilt the kernel and it detects the
> device on psm0 on boot, but X doesn't behave like it sees a mouse there;
> the mouse doesn't respond to movement other than to jump to the upper
> left hand corner of the screen.
Seems like you've chosen the wrong mousetype in your X config file...
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