From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 22 20:00:27 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id UAA15246 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jul 1995 20:00:27 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA15240 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 1995 20:00:22 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id MAA27193; Sun, 23 Jul 1995 12:47:32 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507230317.MAA27193@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: vidcontrol and screen modes To: morpheus@algonet.se (Per-Olof Carlsson) Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 12:47:32 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Per-Olof Carlsson" at Jul 22, 95 09:34:46 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 975 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 \\ -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[