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Date:      Sat, 4 Sep 2004 04:22:22 +0200
From:      Gianmarco <gmarco@giovannelli.it>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   FreeBSD vs Linux: more than 80 chars.
Message-ID:  <200409040422.22455.gmarco@giovannelli.it>

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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.



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