From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 7 11:22:17 2003 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 2312B37B401 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:22:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F2FF43ED8 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:22:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with ESMTP id <2003010719221400300ldrdre>; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 19:22:14 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h07JMEXt045230; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 14:22:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h07JMEAY045227; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 14:22:14 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: saai@uni.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: console framebuffer References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 07 Jan 2003 14:22:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <44of6s69zt.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Andrew Friedley writes: > I'm new to freebsd, coming from linux. > In linux I use a 1600x1200 framebuffer console, is it possible to set up > something like this in freebsd? I am not talking about X Windows, but > increasing the size of the default 80x25 console. vidcontrol(1) should let you set a variety of video modes, with software fonts. This doesn't give you the graphics capabilities of a true frame buffer, but it should be all you're looking for in terms of text display. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message