Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 17:37:22 +0100 From: "Peter Edwards" <peter.edwards@isocor.ie> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Fw: syscons in 80x50/80x43 mode Message-ID: <343A136B00000363@paradise.isocor.ie> (added by paradise.isocor.ie)
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Hi, I sent this a while back, but we had mail problems around then, so I'm not sure if it made it to the list. I'd kinda forgotten about it until I started cleaning out my sent mail. ---------- > From: Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@isocor.ie> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: syscons in 80x50/80x43 mode > Date: Monday, September 15, 1997 7:03 PM > > Hi, > I tried using vidcontrol to set my console into 80x50 mode, but either the > video card or the syscons driver doesn't seem to happy to do this. > Here's what I did: > vidcontrol -f 8x8 iso-8x8 > vidcontrol VGA_80x50 > > Afterwards, the screen is displaying 80x50 character cells, but it's still > using the 8x16 font, so I only see the top half of the characters. > I added in a few printfs to the syscons driver around the > "switch(font_size)" line in syscons.c:set_mode(), and it does indeed > execute code to change to the 8x8 character set, but it seems to have no > effect. I got it to work by padding the 8x8 font out to an 8x16 font and > loading that before the switch, but I'd like to know if this is actually a > bug in the syscons driver, or just a general limitation of my VGA adapter. > I'm running 2.2.2-RELEASE, and the video card is a 2MB Mach-64. Any one got > any ideas? > Mail directly please, I'm not subscribed to freebsd-questions. > Cheers, > Peter.
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