From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 27 14:45: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51F8237B911 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:44:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2RMhYZM073070; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:43:34 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2RMhXIh073069; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:43:33 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:43:33 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: winston Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vidcontrol: 132x46 <- not working Message-ID: <20020327224333.GA29067@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200203272231.g2RMV6C23818@zerg.codec.ro> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200203272231.g2RMV6C23818@zerg.codec.ro> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error 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 In the last episode (Mar 28), winston said: > hi, > > I tried to set my video mode other than 80x25, particulary a larger one, > e.g.132x43, but I couldnt succeed. > I loaded all three kinds of fonts (8x8, 8x14, 8x16), loaded the vesa module (via > kldload). > > vidcontrol -i mode doesnt show any video mode (text mode) with at least 100 > columns... If "vidcontrol -i mode" doesn't show any 132x* modes then they don't exist. I think lots of the newer 3d cards have dropped most vesa support, including the neat 132-col modes. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message