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Date:      Wed, 27 Mar 2002 17:19:44 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        winston <duke99@email.ro>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vidcontrol: 132x46 <- not working
Message-ID:  <20020327231943.GA91501@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <200203272304.g2RN4iA02622@zerg.codec.ro>
References:  <200203272304.g2RN4iA02622@zerg.codec.ro>

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In the last episode (Mar 28), winston said:
> Dan wrote:
> > In the last episode (Mar 28), winston said:
> > >   I tried to set my video mode other than 80x25, particulary a
> > > larger one, e.g.132x43, but I couldnt succeed. I loaded all three
> > > kinds of fonts (8x8, 8x14, 8x16), loaded the vesa module (via
> > > kldload).
> > > 
> > > vidcontrol -i mode doesnt show any video mode (text mode) with at
> > > least 100 columns...
> > 
> > If "vidcontrol -i mode" doesn't show any 132x* modes then they
> > don't exist.  I think lots of the newer 3d cards have dropped most
> > vesa support, including the neat 132-col modes.
>
> any suggestion how to set up a larger mode then??? beside 80x modes.

Besides using X, or finding another video card?  I like the 90x modes,
and since they're based off the 80x modes they always are available. 
you'll need to rebuild your kernel with "options VGA_WIDTH90".

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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