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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!europa.clark.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!not-for-mail From: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Console setup Date: 3 Jun 1997 12:20:46 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Lines: 21 Sender: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@ab141.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Message-ID: <5n126u$ehi$2@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <33933152.D1A@nettipaja.clinet.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: ab141.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-User: un1i X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970409; AIX 4.1] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42164 Joel Yliluoma <bisqwit@nettipaja.clinet.fi> wrote: > How can I get rid of the keyhole-80x25 console mode? > When I had Linux I loved to have 80x60 screen mode. > Now I am cursing because FreeBSD is and stays in 80x25 mode, and > I can get info nowhere how to fix that. You could've tried "apropos video" :-) > Could anybody help me? vidcontrol -f 8x8 /usr/share/syscons/fonts/cp850-8x8.fnt (to load the font; there are other ones in that directory) vidcontrol VGA_80x50 (to set the mode; have a look at vidcontrol -h for other modes) > 132x60 mode would be cool, especially for programming purposes! :-) I think the pcvt console can do this with some video cards, but the normal console driver doesn't support it. Bye, Philipp