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From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux: more than 80 chars.
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On Saturday 04 September 2004 11:52, Gianmarco wrote:
> 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.
>
I would expect placing the options in the kernel 
configuration file to work; but in any case try:
 # kldload vesa
and then try again:
 # vidcontrol -i mode

Malcolm