From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 16 09:19:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA03193 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 09:19:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from paradise.isocor.ie (paradise.isocor.ie [193.120.125.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA03184 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 09:18:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from plank (193.120.125.26) by paradise.isocor.ie (NPlex 1.3.152) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; 15 Sep 1997 19:02:20 +0100 Message-ID: <3413BBE7000028AB@paradise.isocor.ie> (added by paradise.isocor.ie) From: "Peter Edwards" To: Subject: syscons in 80x50/80x43 mode Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 19:03:41 +0100 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1162 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.