From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 8 7:51: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from h24-207-15-177.cst.dccnet.com (h24-207-15-177.cst.dccnet.com [24.207.15.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C1BB37B40B for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 07:50:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dccnet.com (kevine01.ugaloo.org [192.168.192.2]) by h24-207-15-177.cst.dccnet.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A56812D2; Wed, 8 May 2002 07:50:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3CD93B2A.1040904@dccnet.com> Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 07:50:18 -0700 From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020505 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chris@graham.shacknet.nu Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: setting console to 80x50 res References: <200205080513.g485D0eb053639@graham.shacknet.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Take a look and vidcontrol(1). There are settings in rc.conf to set this at startup AFAIK. Chris Graham wrote: > i was wondering if anyone knew how to make the text-mode console run in 80x50 resolution, instead of the default 80x25. i've changed my > /etc/ttys lines from cons25 to cons50, but that didn't do anything. i can't find anything in the manual, but i'm pretty sure it can be done, > at least i remember it being done back in 3.0 or so. thanx! > -chris > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message