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Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 22:13:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
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On Sat, 22 Jul 1995, Per-Olof Carlsson wrote:

> 
> Hello!
> 
> 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.

what you need to do is to modify the font file... so basicly edit 
/etc/sysconfig and modify the line that defines font8x14 to 
"font8x14=cp437-8x13" or something like that... then it will work...

John-Mark

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