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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA517 ; Thu, 04 Feb 93 13:00:20 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!uqcspe!cjb From: cjb@cs.uq.oz.au (Christopher J Biggs) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Anyway for bsd386 to come up in 50 line mode? Message-ID: <CJB.93Feb4091505@orchid.cs.uq.oz.au> Date: 3 Feb 93 23:15:05 GMT References: <wagner.998.728537815@main.mndly.umn.edu> Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au Organization: Computer Science Department, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Lines: 37 In-reply-to: wagner@main.mndly.umn.edu's message of 1 Feb 93 03:36:55 GMT >>>>> In article <wagner.998.728537815@main.mndly.umn.edu>, wagner@main.mndly.umn.edu (Rick Wagner) writes: >As I am a great believer in vga-50 line mode, I'm curious whether its >possible to have the system start in a 50 line mode. I've looked through >the code and I can't see an easy way to do it with my EXTREMELY limited >knowledge of bsd386. >Do any of you gurus out there know of a way to do this? Well, there's a nice way, and a not-so-nice way to do this :) You could install Soeren Schmidt`s syscons driver which allows virutal consoles and switching of vga modes. (and you could install my patches that allow dual vga/mono too... ) OR..... You could do what I did for a time: hack the binary of the bootstrap loader (the wee 512byte one) to do a BIOS INT 0x10 call /before/ switching to protected mode. I did this to get my trident in 132x60 mode, by replacing the first few bytes of the loader with a call to the free space at the end of the bootblock, where I execute the instructions that were overwritten by the call, do the BIOS interrupt call, and return to your regularly scheduled loader. It worked fine, just that I de-installed it when I installed syscons, and havent got around to patching 132col mode into syscons yet. Lets face it, for editing program code, 80 columns suck! Hack on, Chris. -- Christopher J Biggs cjb@cs.uq.oz.au | "You can have peace. Or you can Department of Computer Science, | have freedom. Don't ever count on The University of Queensland, Australia | having both at once."--Lazarus Long ------------veni vidi nuclei deceiri - I came, I saw, I dumped core------------