From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 13 16:50:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA04190 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:39:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from copper.singnet.com.sg (copper.singnet.com.sg [165.21.7.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA03658 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:36:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shuman@annexgrp.org) Received: from thing.annexgrp.org (root@[203.190.32.101]) by copper.singnet.com.sg (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA07469; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 01:11:29 +0800 (SGT) Received: from localhost (shuman@localhost) by thing.annexgrp.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA00347; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 21:27:28 +0600 Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 21:27:28 +0600 (BGT) From: M Shariful Anam To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: console stuff In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Organization: Annex Group (Bangladesh) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi, On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Doug White wrote: | > 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. Is there any documentation on this? Like man page, doc or URL? | > 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 | | Depends on what you're using. syscons doesn't emulate vt100 very well; | try using screen. screen on local(FreeBSD) box and then telnet to the remote(Linux) box? --- M S Anam Annex Group, Bangladesh We hack to learn!