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From: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp. (Kazutaka YOKOTA)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Console setup
Date: 11 Jun 1997 04:03:01 GMT
Organization: Utsunomiya University, Utsunomiya, Japan
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In article <slrn5p99hd.1jg.ripley@nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de> for comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
H. Eckert wrote:

ripley>>Currently I set all my virtual screens to VGA_80x30 from within
ripley>>my rc.local.  Running startx seems to switch through ttyv0 and
ripley>>temporarily resets it to 80x25 which clears the screen of ttyv0...
ripley>>I'd like to get rid of this misbehaviour, if possible.

I don't think you could. It's annoying, but it's the way XFree86 server
behaves. Fiddling with syscons will have no effect.

Kazu