From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 22:53: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F31AA37B401 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:53:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.irrelevant.org (81-86-164-179.dsl.pipex.com [81.86.164.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B134043E65 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:52:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simond@irrelevant.org) Received: from simond by home.irrelevant.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 183ryA-0000Rx-00; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 06:52:46 +0100 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 06:52:46 +0100 From: Simon Dick To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: Pascal Giannakakis , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing font size of tty Message-ID: <20021022055246.GA1251@irrelevant.org> References: <11241.1035190066@www19.gmx.net> <20021021115605.GE27016@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <3vvg3v1t34.g3v@localhost.localdomain> <20021021200842.GA12838@irrelevant.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *183ryA-0000Rx-00*LzXxiBRv.4E* 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 On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 04:44:30PM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Simon Dick 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message