From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 19 02:03:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA15960 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 02:03:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA15953 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 02:03:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA04346; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 02:03:32 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199702191003.CAA04346@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk (Philippe Regnauld) cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pcvt/132 columns In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 Feb 1997 09:52:01 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 02:03:32 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >From The Desk Of Philippe Regnauld : > Michael Smith (msmith) ecrit/writes: > > > > The SVGATextmode stuff had been done for FreeBSD, and if I thought it > > was worth the effort, I'd try to help Soren get it working. As it is, > > a $60 PCI video card gives more than enough X grunt for snazzy text modes > > to be a complete waste of time. > > Right you are. But even though we workstation-monitor weenies may > be on the way to extinction, in the meantime: > > a) It's nice to have 10200 (170x60) chars on the screen when you code > in text mode (with moused, it's even better -- see below) Huh, I think is nice to have 6 virtual screens at 1020x768 all accesible by either clicking on a pane or just scrolling the mouse. The console stuff is great but I got tell you I hardly ever use it I just boot the system and go straight to X. In fact now days , I just run X in 32bit mode. Cheers, Amancio