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From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Console setup
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 09:29:18 +0200
Organization: The FreeBSD Project
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Brian Somers wrote:
> >> Have a look in /etc/sysconfig (or /etc/rc.conf in 2.2.2).
> >
> > Do you imply that the settings executed in /etc/rc.i386 are
> > early enough so they are inherited by all virtual console
> > screens ?  I can't see any code in it (with 2.2.1-RELEASE)
> > to get the virtual consoles set to VGA_80x25 or some different
> > value submitted by /etc/sysconfig.  Is this enhanced with 2.2.2 ?
> [.....]
> 
> This would be a nice bell/whistle - it's not in 2.2.2 AFAIK.
> Søren, you still listening (*nudge*) ?

Hmm, there are complications on doing this during the boot fase,
but one can easily set it up in rc.something or in /usr/local/etc/rc.d
like this:

vidcontrol -f 8x8 iso-8x8
for tty in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f
do
	vidcontrol VGA_80x60 < /dev/ttyv$tty
done

Søren