From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 26 15:59:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mgci.com (box1.mpowercom.net [208.57.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C8F1137B401 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 15:59:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chrissmith@mgci.com) Received: (qmail 4699 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2001 23:45:52 -0000 Received: from las-dsl113-cust059.mpowercom.net (HELO chris) (208.57.113.59) by box1.mpowercom.net with SMTP; 26 Feb 2001 23:45:52 -0000 Message-ID: <004901c0a04e$3c8c6120$0c00a8c0@amgroupadmin.com> From: "Chris Smith" To: "Freebsd Questions" References: Subject: Re: vidcontrol Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 15:45:44 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 Disposition-Notification-To: "Chris Smith" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You need a VESA compatible video card and VESA support either loaded as a kernel module or compiled into your kernel. The first way: # kldload vesa.ko # vidcontrol VESA_132x60 The second way is to add to your kernel config file: options VESA and rebuild the kernel, then # vidcontrol VESA_132x60 will work. _________________________________________________________________________ Chris Smith American Group Administrators IT Department First National Administrators ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexander" To: Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 3:42 PM Subject: vidcontrol > What hardware is required to change my console to 132x60 or 132x50 ? > Because I have changed a lot of video cards and I still can't swith to it > When I list the modes (vidcontrol -i mode) there are 132x25, 132x43, > 132x50, 132x60 but I can switch only to 132x25 and it is really ugly > If someone runs on bigger mode please answer ... > thanks > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message