From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 27 15: 7: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zerg.codec.ro (zerg.codec.ro [193.230.240.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8CAF37B400 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 15:07:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from httpd@localhost) by zerg.codec.ro (8.11.4/8.11.4) id g2RN4iA02622; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 01:04:44 +0200 Message-Id: <200203272304.g2RN4iA02622@zerg.codec.ro> From: winston To: Dan Nelson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vidcontrol: 132x46 <- not working Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 01:04:44 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [193.226.6.226] X-Mailer: freemail 0.9.8 X-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Linux 2.4.2 i386) Opera 6.0 [en] X-Organization: CODEC FreeMail 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 any suggestion how to set up a larger mode then??? beside 80x modes. thanx > 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 > Sorin Chiorean ______________________________________________________________________ Do you want a free e-mail for life ? Get it at http://www.email.ro/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message