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Date:      Sun, 23 Jul 1995 12:47:32 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        morpheus@algonet.se (Per-Olof Carlsson)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: vidcontrol and screen modes
Message-ID:  <199507230317.MAA27193@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.90.950722212654.10626A-100000@sophocles.algonet.se> from "Per-Olof Carlsson" at Jul 22, 95 09:34:46 pm

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Per-Olof Carlsson stands accused of saying:
> I've installed FreeBSD 2.0.5 on my computer at home, and must say that 
> I'm very pleased with it! I've come across a problem with it though, and 
> that's when I try to use vidcontrol to set the video-mode to either 
> VGA_80x50 or VGA_80x60 - it just won't work, neither will EGA_80x43.
> 
> This is odd, since my setup can handle that.

That's cool; you need to load appropriate fonts first.  Look at the example
in /etc/sysconfig to see how to load them at startup.

> Per-Olof Karlsson \\ self-confessed MUD-addict, writer, physicist, lazy \\

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