From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 12 14:49:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F8D537B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:49:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8330143F85 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:49:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h1CMnFg4080236; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:49:15 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:49:15 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Mark Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Screen width Message-ID: <20030212224915.GC1980@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200302122241.H1CMFGEH025609@asarian-host.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302122241.H1CMFGEH025609@asarian-host.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Feb 12), Mark said: > Although I almost always communicate with my server (FreeBSD 4.7R) > via SecureCRT, esecially since it, apart from being secure, has such > a nice way to layout my screen-fonts and such, I do, however, from > time to time have access the server directly, via its own monitor > (for going into single-user mode and such). > > I was just wondering whether I can tweak the terminal settings a bit. > I mean, so as to have a text-screen a bit wider than 80x25. :) I have > no X graphical interface installed; just text. The vidcontrol command will let you switch the number of columns to 80, 90 (with the VGA_WIDTH90 kernel option), or 143 (with VESA), and the number of rows to 25, 30, 43, 50, or 60 (depending on the fonts you have loaded). See the vidcontrol manpage for info. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message