Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 19:03:41 +0100 From: "Peter Edwards" <peter.edwards@isocor.ie> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: syscons in 80x50/80x43 mode Message-ID: <3413BBE7000028AB@paradise.isocor.ie> (added by paradise.isocor.ie)
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Hi, I tried using vidcontrol to set my console into 80x50 mode, but either the video card or the syscons driver doesn't seem to happy to do this. Here's what I did: vidcontrol -f 8x8 iso-8x8 vidcontrol VGA_80x50 Afterwards, the screen is displaying 80x50 character cells, but it's still using the 8x16 font, so I only see the top half of the characters. I added in a few printfs to the syscons driver around the "switch(font_size)" line in syscons.c:set_mode(), and it does indeed execute code to change to the 8x8 character set, but it seems to have no effect. I got it to work by padding the 8x8 font out to an 8x16 font and loading that before the switch, but I'd like to know if this is actually a bug in the syscons driver, or just a general limitation of my VGA adapter. I'm running 2.2.2-RELEASE, and the video card is a 2MB Mach-64. Any one got any ideas? Mail directly please, I'm not subscribed to freebsd-questions. Cheers, Peter.
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