From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 11 12:43:47 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9837816A4DE for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:43:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: from web60017.mail.yahoo.com (web60017.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.178.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B3F943D45 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:43:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: (qmail 33921 invoked by uid 60001); 11 Jul 2006 12:43:46 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.ca; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=wGLjjle6Tyqwjckdgg00EIpimQmolBcsyG3z/UngcdQ0diSLDfdTx8bp2P2M2Uib2O6D+Eit/edTEp/wJu5rLXe9AwAUxDCYe9lH7dR1iXvGgTiLs/cGICx5w9+SRijGxyr2ljHyEafxP8Mlo+9EzLDk9yI8XeXTYXElGQVwBnY= ; Message-ID: <20060711124346.33919.qmail@web60017.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.131.121.105] by web60017.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:43:46 EDT Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:43:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter To: Giorgos Keramidas In-Reply-To: <20060711085609.GC70153@gothmog.pc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Stubborn , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: been buggin' me for a while now (console resolution) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:43:47 -0000 --- Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2006-07-10 23:32, Peter wrote: > >--- Stubborn wrote: > >> You need to recompile your kernel with below > >> options VESA > > > > Allright, did that. > > > >> You need to include these in your rc.conf > >> allscreens_flags="132x25" > > > > I'm trying manually first and it's a "no go". This is the output > of > > 'vidcontrol -i mode': [snip] 34 (0x022) 0x00000001 T 80x60 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k > The 132x25 mode doesn't work for all video adapters, AFAIK. > > The best I have been able to use almost everywhere is 80x30. I can manually get 80x60 with 'vidcontrol 80x60' and this is good enough for me. How do I automate this at bootup? Peter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com