From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 15 00:44:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA06650 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 00:44:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA06589 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 00:44:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id JAA17668 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 09:43:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id JAA03985; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 09:34:39 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 09:34:39 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199712150834.JAA03985@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E References: From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Subject: Re: 132 Column mode on VGA Consoles X-Original-Newsgroups: local.freebsd.hackers To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Karl Pielorz wrote: > Is there a way of getting the kernel to boot in 132 column mode on a VGA > based 2.2.5-Release / 2.2.2-Release box at all? This used to be possible for some (now rather obsolete) hardware in the pcvt console driver. The solution was not elegant (everything was hard-coded into the driver), and eventually became stale. With the advent of affordable graphics equipment, most people don't seem to be that much interested in working hard on the text console enhancement (although i know Søren's got some plans in mind), at least not enough to spend hundreds of hours there. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)