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From: Michael Wozniak <mwozniak@border.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: VGA console control sans X
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 12:41:57 -0500
Organization: Border Network Technologies
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I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of some 
resources about running the console in 132x50 VGA mode with a mouse.
I've managed to find a nifty FreeBSD driver (pcvt) to do this stuff,
but I'm not in the mood for porting half of the console code to get
it.

TIA, Mike

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Michael S. Wozniak, Systems Developer, Secure Computing Corporation
e-mail: mwozniak@border.com, web: http://www.interlog.com/~mwozniak