From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 16:46:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from museum.rain.com (museum.rain.com [206.29.168.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D77837B405 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:46:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from list@localhost) by museum.rain.com (8.11.6/8.11.4) id fAL0kVZ11693; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:46:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from list) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:46:31 -0800 From: list To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: How do I set vidcontrol modes? Message-ID: <20011120164631.B11629@museum.rain.com> References: <014d01c1721d$74e0c470$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <014d01c1721d$74e0c470$0a00000a@atkielski.com>; from anthony@atkielski.com on Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 12:45:31AM +0100 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 On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 12:45:31AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Okay, I give up: How do I set a video mode in vidcontrol after finding one on > the list produced by vidcontrol -i mode that I wish to use? I tried specifying > the number of the mode, with no luck. Tried it in hex, too (e.g., "vidcontrol > 0x325") but that doesn't work, either. What's the secret? No, the man page > doesn't explain it. > You want vidcontrol mode where mode is the mode you want. For example, vidcontrol 80x43 Make sure you have the necessary kernel stuff for VESA support. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message