Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 09:34:39 +0100 (MET) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 132 Column mode on VGA Consoles Message-ID: <199712150834.JAA03985@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971214232717.477B-100000@caladan.tdx.co.uk>
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Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@caladan.tdx.co.uk> wrote: > Is there a way of getting the kernel to boot in 132 column mode on a VGA > based 2.2.5-Release / 2.2.2-Release box at all? This used to be possible for some (now rather obsolete) hardware in the pcvt console driver. The solution was not elegant (everything was hard-coded into the driver), and eventually became stale. With the advent of affordable graphics equipment, most people don't seem to be that much interested in working hard on the text console enhancement (although i know Søren's got some plans in mind), at least not enough to spend hundreds of hours there. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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