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Subject: Re: > 80x24 ?
To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 96 14:04:12 MET
From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de>
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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