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From: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp. (Kazutaka YOKOTA)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 1024x768 works for Thinkpad; internal modem
Date: 20 Apr 1997 06:53:49 GMT
Organization: Utsunomiya University, Utsunomiya, Japan
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Peter M. Chen wrote:
pmchen>>Also, quitting X leaves the console screen fonts really messed up.
pmchen>>Running "vidcontrol VGA_80x25" helps, but it still doesn't print many
pmchen>>characters. Anybody know how to fix this? In Linux, the apparent solution
pmchen>>is to run a program called "setfont", but I haven't found this program
pmchen>>for FreeBSD (and it wasn't trivial to compile the Linux source for FreeBSD.
pmchen>>I haven't tried Linux emulation for setfont).
How about running:
vidcontrol -f 8x16 /usr/share/syscons/fonts/whatever_font_you_want
Kazu