Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 21:16:18 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christopher W. Aiken" <cwaiken@icubed.com> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: vidcontrol help Message-ID: <20010605211402.O907-100000@bigdaddy.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20010606030846.A15223@student.uu.se>
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On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Erik Trulsson wrote: :)On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:40:31PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: :)> I'm trying to get a 90x43 display on my consol window. :)> I tried everything I could think of but can not get :)> any displays except 80x25 and 80x30. I tried: :)> vidcontrol 90x42 :) :)Read the man page for vidcontrol(1) where they list the possible modes :)and then try 'vidcontrol VGA_90x43' and see if that works. :)(It works for me at least.) When I issue: vidcontrol VGA_90x43 my screen clears and goes black. I can get a much better looking console in Linux. I believe they use something called "framebuffer"? :) :)It is also possible that your graphics card only supports a few text :)modes. There is not much demand for text mode today so many :)manufacturers don't bother to do anything fancy. :) :)> :)> and vidcontrol just comes back with some help. :)> :)> Here is what I've done so far. Any one know what :)> I'm doing wrong? BTW I'm curious why no VESA modes :)> are listed below in the "-i mode" output. :)> :)> I rebuilt a new kernel with: :)> options VGA_WIDTH90 :)> options VESA :)> :)> I added these lines to my /etc/rc.conf: :)> font8x8="cp437-8x8.fnt" :)> font8x14="cp437-8x14.fnt" :)> font8x16="cp437-8x16.fnt" :)> :)> After a reboot (sorry, old habits are hard to break) :)> vidcontrol reports: :) :)[snip] :) :) :) :)-- :)<Insert your favourite quote here.> :)Erik Trulsson :)ertr1013@student.uu.se :) :) :)To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org :)with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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