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Date:      Tue, 22 Oct 2002 06:52:46 +0100
From:      Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org>
To:        "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com>
Cc:        Pascal Giannakakis <CapM@gmx.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Changing font size of tty
Message-ID:  <20021022055246.GA1251@irrelevant.org>
In-Reply-To: <ajelaj1hnl.laj@localhost.localdomain>
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On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 04:44:30PM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org> writes:
> 
> > Why not just add vesa_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf ? Far nicer
> > than hacking a startup file :)
> 
> Good point.  I forget that someone told me about that later.
> 
> I don't quite agree with your last crack, though, because I think my
> hack, which was submitted as a PR patch, should have avoided the need
> for this sub-thread and the need for other people to run into this
> dependency the hard way and the need to learn the vesa_load thing and
> the (sort of) need to remove it again after they stop using "132" fonts.
> 
> But my PR has apparently been shelved because someone is hoping that
> some C programmer will eventually change vidcontrol instead.  Seems like
> a poor use of programmer resources, assuming it will ever happen, but
> it's not my call.  Any volunteers?  It's PR 43500.

I can see why it could be better to have it put into the startup files,
but I use the vesa module despite not having really tried getting 132
column video working yet :)

-- 
Simon Dick					simond@irrelevant.org

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