From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 21 6:47:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cisco.com (sword.cisco.com [161.44.208.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1F6637B405 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 06:47:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from sjt-u10.cisco.com (sjt-u10.cisco.com [10.85.30.63]) by cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA09323; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:47:40 -0500 (EST) Received: (sjt@localhost) by sjt-u10.cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/CISCO.WS.1.2) id JAA20970; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:47:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:47:40 -0500 From: Steve Tremblett To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: pan , freeBSD-questions Subject: Re: How do I set vidcontrol modes? Message-ID: <20011121094740.B20775@sjt-u10.cisco.com> References: <014d01c1721d$74e0c470$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120164631.B11629@museum.rain.com> <01bd01c17227$0da4f510$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <035e01c1722a$8a37f340$2813933f@cat> <01de01c17230$c3ccf370$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01de01c17230$c3ccf370$0a00000a@atkielski.com>; from anthony@atkielski.com on Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 03:03:44AM +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 +---- Anthony Atkielski wrote: | > Careful reading of _man vidcontrol_ would have shown | > you all this and more. | | No, careful reading of the man page provided no information on what field to | enter for the mode (based on the list of available modes), and does not explain | the error message that I received above. If it did, I wouldn't have to ask the | question here. On the first page: DESCRIPTION The vidcontrol command is used to set various options for the syscons(4) console driver, such as video mode, colors, cursor shape, screen output map, font and screen saver timeout. The following command line options are supported: mode Select a new video mode. The modes currently recognized are: 80x25, 80x30, 80x43, 80x50, 80x60, 132x25, 132x30, 132x43, 132x50, 132x60, VGA_40x25, VGA_80x25, VGA_80x30, VGA_80x50, VGA_80x60, VGA_90x25, VGA_90x30, VGA_90x43, VGA_90x50, VGA_90x60, EGA_80x25, EGA_80x43, VESA_132x25, VESA_132x43, VESA_132x50, VESA_132x60. The raster text mode VESA_800x600 can also be cho- sen. See Video Mode Support below. -- Steve Tremblett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message