Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 03:08:46 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: "Christopher W. Aiken" <cwaiken@icubed.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: vidcontrol help Message-ID: <20010606030846.A15223@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <20010605203744.S595-100000@bigdaddy.localdomain>; from cwaiken@icubed.com on Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:40:31PM -0400 References: <20010605203744.S595-100000@bigdaddy.localdomain>
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On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:40:31PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > I'm trying to get a 90x43 display on my consol window. > I tried everything I could think of but can not get > any displays except 80x25 and 80x30. I tried: > vidcontrol 90x42 Read the man page for vidcontrol(1) where they list the possible modes and then try 'vidcontrol VGA_90x43' and see if that works. (It works for me at least.) It is also possible that your graphics card only supports a few text modes. There is not much demand for text mode today so many manufacturers don't bother to do anything fancy. > > and vidcontrol just comes back with some help. > > Here is what I've done so far. Any one know what > I'm doing wrong? BTW I'm curious why no VESA modes > are listed below in the "-i mode" output. > > I rebuilt a new kernel with: > options VGA_WIDTH90 > options VESA > > I added these lines to my /etc/rc.conf: > font8x8="cp437-8x8.fnt" > font8x14="cp437-8x14.fnt" > font8x16="cp437-8x16.fnt" > > After a reboot (sorry, old habits are hard to break) > vidcontrol reports: [snip] -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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