From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 4 02:22:33 2004 Return-Path: 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 1D79C16A4CE for ; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 02:22:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freebsd.giovannelli.com (freebsd.giovannelli.com [83.149.149.149]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83A0743D1D for ; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 02:22:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gmarco@giovannelli.it) Received: from [10.254.254.129] ([10.254.254.129])i842MLYP047090 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 04:22:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gmarco@giovannelli.it) From: Gianmarco To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 04:22:22 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200409040422.22455.gmarco@giovannelli.it> X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir Milter 1.1-beta; AVE 6.26.0.10; VDF 6.26.0.67 (host: freebsd.giovannelli.com) Subject: FreeBSD vs Linux: more than 80 chars. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 02:22:33 -0000 Hi, the question is very simple. I'd like to have more than 80 chars on my console. My env is: * Dell latitude D600 * FreeBSD 5.3-ALPHA * ATI Radeon Lf R250 Mobility 9000 M9 My vidcontrol -i mode shows: --> begin <-- mode# flags type size font window linear buffer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [...] 259 (0x103) 0x0000000f G 800x600x8 1 8x14 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32704k [...] 275 (0x113) 0x0000000f G 800x600x15 1 8x14 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32704k 276 (0x114) 0x0000000f G 800x600x16 1 8x14 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32704k 277 (0x115) 0x0000000f G 800x600x24 1 8x14 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32704k [...] 290 (0x122) 0x0000000f G 800x600x32 1 8x14 0xa0000 64k 64k 0xe8000000 32704k ---> end <--- I have removed any line different from the text mode and from 800x600. The full output is here if needed : http://www.gufi.org/~gmarco/files/vid.txt I have used in the kernel: options VESA options SC_PIXEL_MODE But I am not able to use any mode wider than 80 chars (and this is shown in the vidcontrol. Nor I am able to use any VESA_800x600 graphic mode. Now I am asking here if am I missed something because some Linux distributions I boot seems to use graphical modes and/or more than 80 chars x line. Thanks for attention.