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From: winston <duke99@email.ro>
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Subject:  Re: vidcontrol: 132x46 <- not working
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 19:49:20 +0200
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I have compiled it with "option   SC_PIXEL_MODE", beside VESA, and it still
doesnt want to change the mode.

other ideas :)

thanx

> in order to use 100x37 @ 800x600, besides adding VEGA in kernel, i also 
> added this line before sc0:
> option     SC_PIXEL_MODE
> without this line sc cannot work in graphic mode, which is needed to 
> display so many characters on one single screen.
> 
> I never tried 132x43. 
> 
> by the way, use vidcontrol -i mode you never find anything like 100x37 in 
> it. instead, if your card support 100x37 @ 800x600, vidcontrol will show 
> something like this:
> 
> mode ....    800x600   8x16
> 
> that means it can display 8x16 font @ 800x600. 800/8=100; 600/8=37, so it 
> means it can display 100 column and 37 lines. 
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "winston" <duke99@email.ro>
> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 6:31 AM
> Subject: vidcontrol: 132x46 <- not working
> 
> 
> > 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...
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > thanx
> >   
> > 
> > 
> > 
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