Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 12:23:18 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: Gianmarco <gmarco@giovannelli.it>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux: more than 80 chars. Message-ID: <200409041223.18262.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <200409040422.22455.gmarco@giovannelli.it> References: <200409040422.22455.gmarco@giovannelli.it>
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On Saturday 04 September 2004 11:52, Gianmarco wrote: > Hi, the question is very simple. > > I'd like to have more than 80 chars on my console. > My env is: > * Dell latitude D600 > * FreeBSD 5.3-ALPHA > * ATI Radeon Lf R250 Mobility 9000 M9 > > My vidcontrol -i mode shows: > > --> begin <-- > > mode# flags type size font window linear > buffer > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >--- 24 (0x018) 0x00000001 T 80x25 8x16 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 > 32k 30 (0x01e) 0x00000001 T 80x50 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k > 0x00000000 32k 32 (0x020) 0x00000001 T 80x30 8x16 0xb8000 32k > 32k 0x00000000 32k 34 (0x022) 0x00000001 T 80x60 8x8 0xb8000 > 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k [...] > 259 (0x103) 0x0000000f G 800x600x8 1 8x14 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 > 32704k > [...] > 275 (0x113) 0x0000000f G 800x600x15 1 8x14 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 > 32704k > 276 (0x114) 0x0000000f G 800x600x16 1 8x14 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 > 32704k > 277 (0x115) 0x0000000f G 800x600x24 1 8x14 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 > 32704k > [...] > 290 (0x122) 0x0000000f G 800x600x32 1 8x14 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 > 32704k > > ---> end <--- > > I have removed any line different from the text mode and from 800x600. > The full output is here if needed : > http://www.gufi.org/~gmarco/files/vid.txt > > I have used in the kernel: > options VESA > options SC_PIXEL_MODE > > But I am not able to use any mode wider than 80 chars (and this is shown in > the vidcontrol. Nor I am able to use any VESA_800x600 graphic mode. > I would expect placing the options in the kernel configuration file to work; but in any case try: # kldload vesa and then try again: # vidcontrol -i mode Malcolm
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