Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 04:22:22 +0200 From: Gianmarco <gmarco@giovannelli.it> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD vs Linux: more than 80 chars. Message-ID: <200409040422.22455.gmarco@giovannelli.it>
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Hi, the question is very simple.
I'd like to have more than 80 chars on my console.
My env is:
* Dell latitude D600
* FreeBSD 5.3-ALPHA
* ATI Radeon Lf R250 Mobility 9000 M9
My vidcontrol -i mode shows:
--> begin <--
mode# flags type size font window linear buffer
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
24 (0x018) 0x00000001 T 80x25 8x16 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k
30 (0x01e) 0x00000001 T 80x50 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k
32 (0x020) 0x00000001 T 80x30 8x16 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k
34 (0x022) 0x00000001 T 80x60 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k
[...]
259 (0x103) 0x0000000f G 800x600x8 1 8x14 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000
32704k
[...]
275 (0x113) 0x0000000f G 800x600x15 1 8x14 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000
32704k
276 (0x114) 0x0000000f G 800x600x16 1 8x14 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000
32704k
277 (0x115) 0x0000000f G 800x600x24 1 8x14 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000
32704k
[...]
290 (0x122) 0x0000000f G 800x600x32 1 8x14 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000
32704k
---> end <---
I have removed any line different from the text mode and from 800x600.
The full output is here if needed :
http://www.gufi.org/~gmarco/files/vid.txt
I have used in the kernel:
options VESA
options SC_PIXEL_MODE
But I am not able to use any mode wider than 80 chars (and this is shown in
the vidcontrol. Nor I am able to use any VESA_800x600 graphic mode.
Now I am asking here if am I missed something because some Linux distributions
I boot seems to use graphical modes and/or more than 80 chars x line.
Thanks for attention.
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