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From: eyager@novagate.com (Eric Yagerlener)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux
Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 23:38:07 GMT
Organization: One FreeBSD box
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Philippe Causse (causse@sphynx.fdn.fr) wrote:
: Mikhail Teterin (mi@rtfm.ziplink.net) wrote:
: : Honorable Peter Mutsaers
: :       wrote on 15 May (in article <87lo5gfn6s.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl>):

: : =................................................... No nice
: : =high resolution text modes.

: : Not true :( vidcontrol(1) lets you set modes to 50x80 or 60x80 and others,
: : depending on what your hardware supports. It can also load fonts and change
: : back- and foregraound colors. Other things...

The console fonts used in Linux are 100% compatible with FreeBSD.  I've
got a whole zip file full of screen fonts.

On my particular setup, the 50 and 60 line video modes are now broken in
the 2.2.1-RELEASE.  It used to work in the 2.1.0-RELEASE.  Moused doesn't
work at all.  The problem with XFree86 scrambling up the video after
exiting has been fixed.  Unlike the 2.1.0-RELEASE, using vidfont is
dangerous as it will scramble up the video like XFree86 used to.

Here is what SuperProbe says about my video card is...

First video: Super-VGA
	Chipset: Avance Logic 2228
	Memory:  1024 Kbytes
	RAMDAC:  AcuMos ADAC1 15/16/24-bit DAC
		 (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode))

I can't get more than 256 colors either. :(  I ought to throw it out the
window and get a better one.

: Yes... but I really miss the 132 columns mode !!!
: This was kinda cool feature under Linux...

The Pcvt driver might support it. 

Maybe there should be an effort to write a whole new console driver for
FreeBSD instead of trying to soup up syscons.

eyager@novagate.com