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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!blackbush.xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!not-for-mail From: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 1024x768 works for Thinkpad; internal modem Supersedes: <5jd0gh$k42$1@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Date: 20 Apr 1997 12:04:26 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Lines: 24 Sender: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Message-ID: <5jd0oa$k42$2@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <5j8hnt$4ft$1@news.eecs.umich.edu> Reply-To: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-User: un1i X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970409; 9000/819 HP-UX B.10.10] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39394 Peter M. Chen <pmchen@life.eecs.umich.edu> wrote: [...] > Also, quitting X leaves the console screen fonts really messed up. > Running "vidcontrol VGA_80x25" helps, but it still doesn't print many > characters. Anybody know how to fix this? In Linux, the apparent solution > is to run a program called "setfont", but I haven't found this program > for FreeBSD (and it wasn't trivial to compile the Linux source for FreeBSD. > I haven't tried Linux emulation for setfont). > Pete Maybe it would help to (re-)load a font with vidcontrol, e.g. vidcontrol -f 8x16 /usr/share/syscons/fonts/cp850-8x16.fnt (there are other fonts in this directory, for different resolutions, etc.) or to load a screenmap with vidcontrol -l /usr/share/syscons/scnmaps/... Then there's also kbdcontrol -l and keymap files in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/ Bye, Philipp -- P. Mergenthaler, un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de | Wer halb gebildet, ist der Tel.: 0721/694532 | schoenste Narr. Klosterweg 28 / I609, 76131 Karlsruhe | (Weiss jemand, von wem das ist?) http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~un1i/ |