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Date:      Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:51:23 -0600
From:      jacks@sage-american.com
To:        "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>, "list" <list@museum.rain.com>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How do I set vidcontrol modes?
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.20011120205123.00fc5ac0@mail.sage-american.com>
In-Reply-To: <01e901c17234$5f742e80$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
References:  <014d01c1721d$74e0c470$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120164631.B11629@museum.rain.com> <01bd01c17227$0da4f510$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120181448.A11883@museum.rain.com>

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Have you entered the necessary fonts for those modes in the rc.conf.....???

See /etc/defaults/rc.conf for the fonts.....

At 03:29 AM 11.21.2001 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
>A few of them work, many don't.  Shouldn't all the modes listed by the
command
>also be accepted by it??  I get "Invalid argument" messages on the modes that
>don't work.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "list" <list@museum.rain.com>
>To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>
>Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 03:14
>Subject: Re: How do I set vidcontrol modes?
>
>
>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 01:54:13AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
>>
>> > So how do I pick a mode off the list and
>> > specify it in a subsequent vidcontrol command in order to change modes?
>>
>> For starters, you can ignore the graphics modes:
>>
>> vidcontrol -i mode | grep -w T
>>
>> Then enter the keyword that follows the T.
>>
>>   0 (0x000) 0x00000001 T 40x25           8x8   0xb8000 32k 32k
0x00000000 32k
>>   1 (0x001) 0x00000001 T 40x25           8x8   0xb8000 32k 32k
0x00000000 32k
>>   2 (0x002) 0x00000001 T 80x25           8x8   0xb8000 32k 32k
0x00000000 32k
>>   3 (0x003) 0x00000001 T 80x25           8x8   0xb8000 32k 32k
0x00000000 32k
>>  19 (0x013) 0x00000001 T 40x25           8x14  0xb8000 32k 32k
0x00000000 32k
>>  20 (0x014) 0x00000001 T 40x25           8x14  0xb8000 32k 32k
0x00000000 32k
>>  21 (0x015) 0x00000001 T 80x25           8x14  0xb8000 32k 32k
0x00000000 32k
>>  22 (0x016) 0x00000001 T 80x25           8x14  0xb8000 32k 32k
0x00000000 32k
>>  23 (0x017) 0x00000001 T 40x25           8x16  0xb8000 32k 32k
0x00000000 32k
>>  24 (0x018) 0x00000001 T 80x25           8x16  0xb8000 32k 32k
0x00000000 32k
>>  30 (0x01e) 0x00000001 T 80x50           8x8   0xb8000 32k 32k
0x00000000 32k
>>  32 (0x020) 0x00000001 T 80x30           8x16  0xb8000 32k 32k
0x00000000 32k
>>  34 (0x022) 0x00000001 T 80x60           8x8   0xb8000 32k 32k
0x00000000 32k
>> 112 (0x070) 0x00000000 T 80x43           8x8   0xb8000 32k 32k
0x00000000 32k
>> 113 (0x071) 0x00000001 T 80x43           8x8   0xb8000 32k 32k
0x00000000 32k
>> 264 (0x108) 0x00000009 T 80x60           9x8   0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000
>16384k
>> 265 (0x109) 0x00000009 T 132x25          9x16  0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000
>16384k
>> 266 (0x10a) 0x00000009 T 132x43          9x8   0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000
>16384k
>> 267 (0x10b) 0x00000009 T 132x50          9x8   0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000
>16384k
>> 268 (0x10c) 0x00000009 T 132x60          9x8   0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000
>16384k
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Server Admin

Sage-American
http://www.sage-american.com
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