From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 15 05:03:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA25105 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 05:03:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from casparc.ppp.net (mail.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id FAA25099 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 05:02:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ernie!bert.kts.org!hm@ppp.net) Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0xha9p-0032gtC; Mon, 15 Dec 97 14:02 MET Received: from bert.kts.org(really [194.55.156.2]) by ernie.kts.org via sendmail with smtp id for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 13:24:06 +0100 (MET) (Smail-3.2.0.91 1997-Jan-14 #2 built 1997-Feb-8) Received: by bert.kts.org via sendmail with stdio id for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 13:15:40 +0100 (CET) (Smail-3.2.0.94 1997-Apr-22 #7 built 1997-Jul-4) Message-Id: From: hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: 132 Column mode on VGA Consoles In-Reply-To: <199712150834.JAA03985@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Dec 15, 97 09:34:39 am" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 13:15:40 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: Kitchen Table Systems Reply-To: hm@kts.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch wrote: > > This used to be possible for some (now rather obsolete) hardware in > the pcvt console driver. Obsolete ? No ! Manufacturers tend to be backward compatible within their chip-families, so this still runs (for the supported chipsets) with a little tweaking for the chip-id on up-to-date hardware. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@kts.org Hamburg, Europe "Those who can, do. Those who can't, talk. And those who can't talk, talk about talking." (B. Shaw)