Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:25:15 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: M Shariful Anam <shuman@annexgrp.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: console stuff Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980113202426.24708i-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BOO.3.96.980113212536.277O-100000@thing.annexgrp.org>
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On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, M Shariful Anam wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Doug White wrote: > | > Is there any way to change the default 80x25 mode to something higher like > | > 132x43 (that my display card supports)? > | > | You have to teach vidcontrol/syscons how to switch to that mode. The > | command to change to modes beyond 80x25 are somewhat card-dependent. > > Is there any documentation on this? Like man page, doc or URL? Nope, only source. > | > Also, when I telnet to another unix box, the emulation does not seem to be > | > ok.. even with 'vt100'... for example.. when I try 'mc' (midnight > | > | Depends on what you're using. syscons doesn't emulate vt100 very well; > | try using screen. > > screen on local(FreeBSD) box and then telnet to the remote(Linux) box? Yup. Or bring over the cons25 information to the Linux box, compile it into terminfo format, and point the remote at it. The mail archives may have the procedure, I've seen it described before. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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