From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 16 11:39:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76ECD37B479 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:39:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAGJdX026116; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:39:33 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:39:33 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Jamie Heckford Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Resolution Message-ID: <20001116133933.A5328@dan.emsphone.com> References: <00111619122603.05634@freefire.psi-domain.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <00111619122603.05634@freefire.psi-domain.co.uk>; from "Jamie Heckford" on Thu Nov 16 19:11:36 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Nov 16), Jamie Heckford said: > How would i go about changing the resolution of my vt?? > > Im fed up with the 320 x X mode it uses, and want to maybe get it up to > 1024x768. Console screens aren't pixel-based; they're character-cell based. The default console is 80x25, which is really 720x400 pixels if you want to keep track. If you want more lines/columns on the console, see the vidcontrol manpage. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message