From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 12 18: 1:15 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 2191537B413 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:01:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94CC843F75 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:01:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a152.otenet.gr [212.205.215.152]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1D2184A027034 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 04:01:09 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1D2101E002612 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 04:01:08 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1D0whqu001544; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 02:58:43 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 02:58:43 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Mark Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Screen width Message-ID: <20030213005843.GB1355@gothmog.gr> 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> 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 On 2003-02-12 23:41, Mark wrote: > 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. :) When you are in single-user mode there is only one filesystem, the root filesystem, and that is mounted read-only. Some additional things have to be done before you can use vidcontrol(1) to change the default video mode. For instance, to run mergemaster in 132x25 after an upgrade, I usually run the following in single user mode: # adjkerntz -i # swapon -a # fsck -p # mount -vu / # mount -va # vidcontrol -f grfixed-8x16.fnt -c destructive 132x25 # kbdcontrol -l mykeymap.map -r 200.35 The final two commands are the ones that set up things for the console terminal. Then my keyboard uses a relatively fast repeat rate that makes things easier for me to type, and the 'window' has 132 columns. This way, I can run mergemaster with: # mergemaster -w 132 which is a lot more comfortable for me, especially for viewing the side-by-side diffs printed while merging local changes :) I hope this helps a bit, - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message