Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 02:33:08 +0200 From: beckmann@powermac.stud.th-darmstadt.de (Michael Beckmann) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: vidcontrol Message-ID: <v02130502ac7d23ac276f@[130.83.177.12]>
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Every time I try to switch the screen to 80 x 50 characters with vidcontrol, it says "invalid argument". Switching to 80 x 30 or 40 x 25 works fine, even though with 80 x 30 I get garbled output when I view the manpages; it still seems to assume the screen has 25 lines. When I use pico resp. pine, it uses only the first 25 lines of the screen. Why can't I switch to 80 x 50 ? Can the graphics card simply not handle that ? (It's a modern one with S3 Trio chipset, if that matters). BTW, when I found that my system has an account for Mr. Man, It reminded me of this classic scene: "Mr. Man ! Mr. Maaan !! They left this card. Maybe it'd help you ?" (Mrs. Toronto, er Tarantino says this to the Blues Brothers)
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