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From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Subject: Re: > 80x24 ? 
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> 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...

The syscons driver and associated vidcontrol(1) program can do this
for you.  For some resolutions, you may have to load a font.  In my
/etc/rc.something file, my display resolution gets changed as the
system comes up.

On the other hand, there seems to be a problem where the display has a
different size/font, but the TIOCGWINSZ info seemed to have the
default 80x24 parameters.  Re-setting the display resolution with
vidcontrol(1) corrects it.  Strange..

louie