Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 14:25:48 +0100 (MET) From: sos@FreeBSD.ORG To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: > 80x24 ? Message-ID: <199603261325.OAA16822@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <199603261329.FAA04418@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Darren Reed" at Mar 27, 96 00:31:26 am
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In reply to Darren Reed who wrote:
>
> In some mail from sos@FreeBSD.ORG, sie said:
> >
> > Well, syscons allows you to switch between all those modes that are
> > "common" already..
>
> I remember trying vidcontrol once, and I just did again.
>
> It just tells me "Cannot set videomode: Invalid argument" for everything
> except 80x30.
You havn't loaded a 8x8 font ?? Try that and it will work
> Does the video mode get inherited by all gettys yet ?
> (I'm sure someone likes the feature of it not being so :-)
The videomode is local to each vty.
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Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
So much code to hack -- so little time.
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