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From: "Peter Edwards" <peter.edwards@isocor.ie>
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Subject: Fw: syscons in 80x50/80x43 mode
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 17:37:22 +0100
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Hi,
I sent this a while back,  but we had mail problems around then, so I'm not
sure if it made it to the list. I'd kinda forgotten about it until I
started cleaning out my sent mail.

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> From: Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@isocor.ie>
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: syscons in 80x50/80x43 mode
> Date: Monday, September 15, 1997 7:03 PM
> 
> 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.