From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 28 14: 2: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6942A37B41E for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:01:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b185.otenet.gr [212.205.244.193]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2SM1qg1020295; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 00:01:54 +0200 (EET) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2SM1jos002638; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 00:01:52 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2SKhLUH002188; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:43:21 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:43:21 +0200 (EET) From: Giorgos Keramidas X-X-Sender: charon@hades To: "E. J. Cerejo" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make World question In-Reply-To: <3CA2D9A8.85EC589A@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20020328223801.K1966-100000@hades> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On 2002-03-28 03:51, E. J. Cerejo wrote: > I'm following the instructions shown at > http://mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/mw.html to update freebsd-stable and > I only have a question on step 9 which says to do this: > > Update /etc > cp -Rp /etc /etc.old > mergemaster -v -w 132 (eliminate '-w 132' if 132x43 video mode is not > activated) > > I'm confused about this last line, how do I find out if my 132x43 video > is activated or not? Well, if you haven't enabled it, it's not :-) The -w option of mergemaster passes an alternate "terminal width" option to sdiff, the program that mergemaster uses to display differences when you do a merge. At home I have set my default console video mode to 132x25 because I like being able to read text/code that is more than 80 columns wide. This can be done by setting inn /etc/rc.conf the allscreens_flags="" option. hades:~$ grep allscr /etc/rc.conf | grep -v '^#' allscreens_flags="-c destructive -b black -r black white 132x25 white black" If you don't change this in your /etc/rc.conf, or use vidcontrol(1) in a console terminal, FreeBSD's console is 80 columns wide and can display 25 rows. Cheers, Giorgos. -- FreeBSD: The power to serve. -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message