From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 12 19:59:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA25470 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:59:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA25389 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:58:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA22296; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:58:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:58:46 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: M Shariful Anam cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: console stuff In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, M Shariful Anam wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way to change the default 80x25 mode to something higher like > 132x43 (that my display card supports)? You have to teach vidcontrol/syscons how to switch to that mode. The command to change to modes beyond 80x25 are somewhat card-dependent. > Also, when I telnet to another unix box, the emulation does not seem to be > ok.. even with 'vt100'... for example.. when I try 'mc' (midnight > commander)... the box characters do not show up right... this is usually > not a problem when I telnet from Loser95/NT or linux... Depends on what you're using. syscons doesn't emulate vt100 very well; try using screen. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major