Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:09:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: been buggin' me for a while now (console resolution) Message-ID: <20060711130938.72503.qmail@web60014.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060711125448.GA77175@gothmog.pc>
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--- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > On 2006-07-11 08:43, Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> wrote: > >--- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > >>On 2006-07-10 23:32, Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> wrote: > >>>--- Stubborn <coldlostsick@yahoo.com.sg> wrote: > >>>> You need to recompile your kernel with below > >>>> options VESA > >>> > >>> Allright, did that. > >>> > >>>> You need to include these in your rc.conf > >>>> allscreens_flags="132x25" > >>> > >>> I'm trying manually first and it's a "no go". This is the output > of > >>> 'vidcontrol -i mode': > > > > [snip] > > > > 34 (0x022) 0x00000001 T 80x60 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k > 0x00000000 32k > > > >> The 132x25 mode doesn't work for all video adapters, AFAIK. > >> > >> The best I have been able to use almost everywhere is 80x30. > > > > I can manually get 80x60 with 'vidcontrol 80x60' and this is good > > enough for me. How do I automate this at bootup? > > By setting your preferred mode in `/etc/rc.conf': > > allscreens_flags="80x30" > > Note that for non-default modes, you also have to set up a font in > your > `rc.conf' file, otherwise vidcontrol will refuse to change the > console > mode at bootup, so a more complete example would be: > > font8x8="iso-8x8.fnt" > allscreens_flags="80x60" > > After saving these in your `/etc/rc.conf' file you don't have to > reboot > for them to take effect, something like the following should work > too: > > hostname# /bin/sh > # vidcontrol -f 8x8 iso-8x8.fnt > # for dev in /dev/ttyv* ; do vidcontrol 80x60 < "$dev" ; done Thank you. I did it the old fashioned way (reboot). Bonus question: I have the following in my .xinitrc file: aterm -e screen & What is happening is that neither /etc/profile nor ~/.profile are being read. How can I get either of them to be sourced? Peter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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