Date: Tue, 26 Mar 96 14:04:12 MET From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: > 80x24 ? Message-ID: <199603261307.OAA27114@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> In-Reply-To: <199603261242.EAA02221@freefall.freebsd.org>; from "Darren Reed" at Mar 26, 96 11:43 pm
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> In some mail from sos@FreeBSD.ORG, sie said: >> >> In reply to Darren Reed who wrote: >> > >> > is anyone looking at making FreeBSD boot into a text resolution greater >> > than 80x24 ? I sorta miss 132x60 in Linux... >> >> No, unless somebody comes up with a way of programming each and >> every videocard around the globe... > > In the back of my TSeng booklet, it tells you how to set the card for > anything beyond 80x24 in assembly: > > * place 0 in register AH to indicate "select mode" function > * place the mode # in register AL > * execute an INT 10h instruction > > and down the bottom it mentions that this is the standard BIOS interface > for video mode select. Precisely. FreeBSD doesn't use the BIOS, so it can't use this method. Greg
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