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Subject: Re: > 80x24 ?
To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 14:25:48 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <199603261329.FAA04418@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Darren Reed" at Mar 27, 96 00:31:26 am
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In reply to Darren Reed who wrote:
> 
> 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.

You havn't loaded a 8x8 font ?? Try that and it will work
 
> Does the video mode get inherited by all gettys yet ?
> (I'm sure someone likes the feature of it not being so :-)

The videomode is local to each vty.


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