From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 20:53:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D6D937B417 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:53:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id fAL4rIw60136; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 05:53:18 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <001601c17248$724dd600$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "list" , Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" References: <014d01c1721d$74e0c470$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120164631.B11629@museum.rain.com> <01bd01c17227$0da4f510$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120181448.A11883@museum.rain.com> <3.0.5.32.20011120205123.00fc5ac0@mail.sage-american.com> Subject: Re: How do I set vidcontrol modes? Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 05:53:12 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 I was not specifying a font. It started working after I specified a font. Why are the graphic modes verboten? ----- Original Message ----- From: To: "Anthony Atkielski" ; "list" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 03:51 Subject: Re: How do I set vidcontrol modes? > Have you entered the necessary fonts for those modes in the rc.conf.....??? > > See /etc/defaults/rc.conf for the fonts..... > > At 03:29 AM 11.21.2001 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > >A few of them work, many don't. Shouldn't all the modes listed by the > command > >also be accepted by it?? I get "Invalid argument" messages on the modes that > >don't work. > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "list" > >To: "Anthony Atkielski" > >Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" > >Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 03:14 > >Subject: Re: How do I set vidcontrol modes? > > > > > >> On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 01:54:13AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > >> > >> > So how do I pick a mode off the list and > >> > specify it in a subsequent vidcontrol command in order to change modes? > >> > >> For starters, you can ignore the graphics modes: > >> > >> vidcontrol -i mode | grep -w T > >> > >> Then enter the keyword that follows the T. > >> > >> 0 (0x000) 0x00000001 T 40x25 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k > 0x00000000 32k > >> 1 (0x001) 0x00000001 T 40x25 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k > 0x00000000 32k > >> 2 (0x002) 0x00000001 T 80x25 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k > 0x00000000 32k > >> 3 (0x003) 0x00000001 T 80x25 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k > 0x00000000 32k > >> 19 (0x013) 0x00000001 T 40x25 8x14 0xb8000 32k 32k > 0x00000000 32k > >> 20 (0x014) 0x00000001 T 40x25 8x14 0xb8000 32k 32k > 0x00000000 32k > >> 21 (0x015) 0x00000001 T 80x25 8x14 0xb8000 32k 32k > 0x00000000 32k > >> 22 (0x016) 0x00000001 T 80x25 8x14 0xb8000 32k 32k > 0x00000000 32k > >> 23 (0x017) 0x00000001 T 40x25 8x16 0xb8000 32k 32k > 0x00000000 32k > >> 24 (0x018) 0x00000001 T 80x25 8x16 0xb8000 32k 32k > 0x00000000 32k > >> 30 (0x01e) 0x00000001 T 80x50 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k > 0x00000000 32k > >> 32 (0x020) 0x00000001 T 80x30 8x16 0xb8000 32k 32k > 0x00000000 32k > >> 34 (0x022) 0x00000001 T 80x60 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k > 0x00000000 32k > >> 112 (0x070) 0x00000000 T 80x43 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k > 0x00000000 32k > >> 113 (0x071) 0x00000001 T 80x43 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k > 0x00000000 32k > >> 264 (0x108) 0x00000009 T 80x60 9x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 > >16384k > >> 265 (0x109) 0x00000009 T 132x25 9x16 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 > >16384k > >> 266 (0x10a) 0x00000009 T 132x43 9x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 > >16384k > >> 267 (0x10b) 0x00000009 T 132x50 9x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 > >16384k > >> 268 (0x10c) 0x00000009 T 132x60 9x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 > >16384k > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > Best regards, > Jack L. Stone, > Server Admin > > Sage-American > http://www.sage-american.com > jacks@sage-american.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message