From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 8 23:48:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [205.178.102.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9327F37B719 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:48:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pjklist@ekahuna.com) Received: from pc-02 (pc02.ekahuna.com [205.178.102.197]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:48:09 -0800 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:48:06 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Can't get 132 columns in single-user mode Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Message-ID: <3AA81A36.15628.2E240E@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 8 Mar 2001, at 20:42, I wrote: > When I boot single-user mode (4.2 RELEASE) I can't get vidcontrol to > set the 132x43 mode, which works fine otherwise. I get: > > vidcontrol: cannot set videomode: Invalid argument > > All the usual vidcontrol commands work but "vidcontrol 132x43". > > I tried manually loading the font files two different ways, figuring > something like rc.conf wasn't being parsed, but it didn't help: > > vidcontrol -f 8x16 swiss-8x16 > vidcontrol -f 8x16 /usr/share/syscons/fonts/swiss-8x16.fnt > > OK.. I'm a dumb bunny. I was loading the 8x16 font manually but 132x43 requires the *8x8* font. When I loaded that instead of the 8x16 font shown above, it works. Sorry for the redundancy. :-) -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message