From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 6 14: 5:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33EE137B403 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 14:05:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pjklist@ekahuna.com) Received: from pc-02 (pc02.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.197]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 14:05:46 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 14:05:45 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: vidcontrol help Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Message-ID: <3B1E38B9.12775.1D6E39@localhost> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) 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 > Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 00:54:04 -0400 > From: Skip > Subject: Re: vidcontrol help > > 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: > > What video card do you have? > > I have the same problem and someone here said that my video card (SiS620) > doesn't implement VESA completely. > > Just like with you though, Linux doesn't seem to have a problem with it. > > I've been looking for info on framebuffers and there isn't very much. > But I think Linux might use graphics modes and FreeBSD doesn't. I'm not > sure though. There is a graphics mode that you can use, but I haven't tried it. ("man vidcontrol" tells us about "VESA_800x600" and the corresponding kernel option "SC_PIXEL_MODE" :-) "man 4 syscons" also tells us the above mode increases the size of the kernel a lot. -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message