From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 13 17:33:22 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA02305 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 17:33:22 -0700 Received: from rs1.hrz.th-darmstadt.de (rs1.hrz.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.22.60]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA02286 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 17:33:19 -0700 Received: from [130.83.177.12] (ppp12.stud.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.177.12]) by rs1.hrz.th-darmstadt.de (8.6.10/8.6.4) with SMTP id CAA22541 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 1995 02:33:05 +0200 X-Sender: (Unverified) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 02:33:08 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: beckmann@powermac.stud.th-darmstadt.de (Michael Beckmann) Subject: vidcontrol Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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)