Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 01:49:41 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I set vidcontrol modes? Message-ID: <20011122234941.GD498@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <01de01c17230$c3ccf370$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <014d01c1721d$74e0c470$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120164631.B11629@museum.rain.com> <01bd01c17227$0da4f510$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <035e01c1722a$8a37f340$2813933f@cat> <01de01c17230$c3ccf370$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On 2001-11-21 03:03:44, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> > Look at what is listed in the "size" column from
> > _vidcontrol -i mode_
> >
> > i.e. 40x25, 132x43, etc.
> > those are exactly the "keywords" you are looking for and
> > exactly what you were told the first time.
>
> And that's exactly what doesn't work. In the list of valid modes produced by
> the command, one contains "132x50" in the "size" column. However, when I try to
> specify this, I get
>
> freebie# vidcontrol 132x50
> vidcontrol: cannot set videomode: Invalid argument
By default no font is loaded for modes that have 8x8 characters. Your
mode, as shown by the following command is one of these:
% vidcontrol -i mode | grep 132
265 (0x109) 0x00000009 T 132x25 8x16 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 2048k
266 (0x10a) 0x00000009 T 132x43 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 2048k
If you want to use a mode that uses 8x8 characters, you need to load a font for
8x8 characters first. This is done with vidcontrol too. Just run:
% vidcontrol -f 8x8 FONT
Where font is the name of a valid 8x8 font. Look at /usr/share/syscons/fonts
for the available fonts. On my system these are:
% ( cd /usr/share/syscons/fonts ; ls *8x8* )
cp1251-8x8.fnt cp866-8x8.fnt iso08-8x8.fnt
cp437-8x8.fnt cp866u-8x8.fnt iso15-8x8.fnt
cp437-thin-8x8.fnt iso-8x8.fnt koi8-r-8x8.fnt
cp850-8x8.fnt iso02-8x8.fnt koi8-u-8x8.fnt
cp850-thin-8x8.fnt iso04-8x8.fnt swiss-8x8.fnt
cp865-8x8.fnt iso04-vga9-8x8.fnt
cp865-thin-8x8.fnt iso07-8x8.fnt
Pick yours, and just load it before trying to change your video mode to 132x50.
-giorgos
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