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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!newsfeed.dacom.co.kr!arclight.uoregon.edu!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!news1.tele.dk!cph-1.news.DK.net!dkuug!dknet!dde.dde.dk!berta.dde.dk!news From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Anyone setup syscons to use VGA_80x30 on bootup? Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 09:11:54 +0200 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3254B8BA.9F2@freebsd.org> References: <DyqCF0.CyC@vindaloo.com> Reply-To: sos@freebsd.org NNTP-Posting-Host: ssc-pc.dde.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: > > 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. You should not change syscons but instead add something like: for f in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 do vidcontrol VGA_80x30 < /dev/ttyv$f done to your /etc/rc.local script. Søren