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Subject: Re: Tunning pccons driver
Message-ID: <27ugjuINNs59@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
From: j@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (J Wunsch)
Date: 24 Sep 1993 12:02:38 +0200
References: <OLEG.93Sep18151859@gd.cs.CSUFresno.EDU>
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In <OLEG.93Sep18151859@gd.cs.CSUFresno.EDU>,
oleg@gd.cs.CSUFresno.EDU (Oleg Kibirev) writes:
>Did anyone patch pccons.c to use 80x50 or 132x50 text mode? If not, will it
>be enough to change #define's in pccons.c and set video mode in wdboot,
>or are constants hard-coded somewhere else?
It's not wise to hack this into the ancient pccons. Btw., changing the
video mode is not such easy as you're assuming. It requires much knowledge
of the VGA in effect if you wanna use non-generic VGA things (as 132x50
were).
Get one of the replacement drivers, i guess the most favorite for NetBSD
folks would be syscons. pcvt and codrv are the other two.
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