From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 5 11:58:28 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E07737B401 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 11:58:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C0CB43F43 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 11:58:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jon@witchspace.com) Received: from witchspace.com ([80.3.251.242]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20030205195819.QRHW4529.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@witchspace.com> for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 19:58:19 +0000 Received: (qmail 92845 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2003 19:58:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO witchspace.com) (192.168.0.1) by dookie.witchspace.com with SMTP; 5 Feb 2003 19:58:15 -0000 Message-ID: <3E416CD6.9040506@witchspace.com> Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 19:58:14 +0000 From: Jonathan Belson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Phil Kernick Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Console size References: <3E41109E.5040602@Kernick.org> In-Reply-To: <3E41109E.5040602@Kernick.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Phil Kernick wrote: > I'm sure it's possible, but exactly which knobs do I have to turn, and > which settings do I have to tweak, to get my console to be bigger than > the standard 80x25? > > I've looking in LINT, and there are some VGA_* options that look > possible, but I can't find any documentation on the correct procedure. Recompile your kernel with VESA and SC_PIXEL_MODE, then run this on startup: echo -n '[Setting up VTs] ' for ii in /dev/ttyv* do /usr/sbin/vidcontrol < $ii -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 #/usr/sbin/vidcontrol green black > $ii 2>&1 done The second line allows you to change the default colours (I tried black text on white like a Sun but it's a bit flickery). --Jon http://www.witchspace.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message