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From: chris@vindaloo.com (Christopher Sean Hilton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Anyone setup syscons to use VGA_80x30 on bootup?
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 02:33:00 GMT
Organization: Vindaloo Communications
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Message-ID: <DyqCF0.CyC@vindaloo.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: pool14-010.wwa.com
After RTFM I found out how to get Xfree going with my Toshiba. Pretty
simple in fact, I didn't expect a programmable clock generator on the
laptop's video chipset.
In any case, with my TI I used to be able to use what TI called
"expanded mode". In it the laptop expanded the 25 lines of my text
displays to fit on the 640x480 display. The Toshiba cannot do this but
# vidcontrol VGA_80x30
gives me a great top to bottom vga screen. My problem: I'd like to
make this the default screen for all text virtual screens on my
laptop. I cannot figure out any way to set this up in /etc/rc.local So
I'm probably going to hack the syscons driver to default to this
mode instead.
If anyone has gone down this path before me and would like to share
info I'd be interested to know what to avoid or if I've just
overlooked something.
Chris
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