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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@freebsd.org, pjf@cts.com
Subject: Re: bugs
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>Another problem: 

>% vidcontrol VGA_80x50
>Cannot set videomode: Invalid argument

>VGA_80x25 and VGA_40x25 work fine, for what it's worth.

You have to previously load an 8 bit high font for 50 lines.  E.g.,
using `vidcontrol -f 8x8 /usr/share/syscons/fonts/iso-8x8.fnt'.
The font path can be abbreviated to iso-8x8.  The path searching
doesn't seem to be documented.

Bruce