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In some mail from sos@FreeBSD.ORG, sie said:
> 
> Well, syscons allows you to switch between all those modes that are
> "common" already..

I remember trying vidcontrol once, and I just did again.

It just tells me "Cannot set videomode: Invalid argument" for everything
except 80x30.

sigh.

Does the video mode get inherited by all gettys yet ?
(I'm sure someone likes the feature of it not being so :-)