From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 25 10:13:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tetron03.tetronsoftware.com (tetron03.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D525D14BCD for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 10:13:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zeus@tetron03.tetronsoftware.com) Received: from tetron03.tetronsoftware.com (tetron03.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.108]) by tetron03.tetronsoftware.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA11885; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 12:14:48 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from zeus@tetron03.tetronsoftware.com) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 12:14:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Gene Harris To: Shannon Wheeler Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 50 console lines In-Reply-To: <046701bf1f0a$0f3db6e0$0307070a@shannon-s> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had to enable vesa emulation in my kernel in order to get the vesa modes to work. (I was never able to get the kernel loadable object to work correctly.) Set the following in your configuration file and then remake the kernel. options VM86 options VESA Then you can use the vidcontrol command. man vidcontrol will fill you in on the details. Gene Harris On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Shannon Wheeler wrote: > ummm.... > > anyone know how to set my text (VGA) consoles to 50 (or so) lines? > > What about 132 columns? > > thanks, > Shannon > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message