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Subject: Re: console control
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Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 13:52:02 +0200 (MET DST)
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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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