From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 8 17:05:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16623 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 17:05:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from darla.swimsuit.internet.dk (Modem1102.internet.dk [194.255.12.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA16537 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 17:04:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@internet.dk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by darla.swimsuit.internet.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA21307; Sat, 9 May 1998 01:54:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root@internet.dk) Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 01:54:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Leif Neland X-Sender: root@darla.swimsuit.internet.dk To: Doug White cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smaller fonts in textmode In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 8 May 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 8 May 1998, Leif Neland wrote: > > > Can FreeBSD run in higher resolution in textmode? > > > > I have good eyes and a good monitor, so is it possible to run say 50x132? > > If your display supports it. See the vidcontrol man page for details. > I can only get 80 characters across, and the vertical frequency is allways 31,4KHz, regardless of number of character lines. So if I get more character lines, I just get fewer scanlines per character, giving ugly characters. I hate to say this, but that other free *nix can do nice small characters, giving a lot of text per screen. Perhaps this proves FreeBSD are for more mature people with ageing eyes :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message