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From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Subject: Re: > 80x24 ?
To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
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>From the keyboard of Darren Reed:

> is anyone looking at making FreeBSD boot into a text resolution greater
> than 80x24 ?  I sorta miss 132x60 in Linux...

The alternate console driver pcvt does support 132 cols on some VGA chipsets
and/or boards; 50 cols are supported on any VGA chipset. Read the pcvt docs
(/usr/src/usr.sbin/pcvt/Misc/Doc) and try it out on your hardware.

hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis           hm@altona.hamburg.com              Hamburg, Europe
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