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Date:      Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:43:33 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        winston <duke99@email.ro>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vidcontrol: 132x46 <- not working
Message-ID:  <20020327224333.GA29067@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <200203272231.g2RMV6C23818@zerg.codec.ro>
References:  <200203272231.g2RMV6C23818@zerg.codec.ro>

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In the last episode (Mar 28), winston said:
> hi, 
> 
>   I tried to set my video mode other than 80x25, particulary a larger one, 
> e.g.132x43, but I couldnt succeed.
> I loaded all three kinds of fonts (8x8, 8x14, 8x16), loaded the vesa module (via
> kldload). 
> 
> vidcontrol -i mode doesnt show any video mode (text mode) with at least 100
> columns...

If "vidcontrol -i mode" doesn't show any 132x* modes then they don't
exist.  I think lots of the newer 3d cards have dropped most vesa
support, including the neat 132-col modes.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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