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From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux
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Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 08:19:49 GMT
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>> On 18 May 1997 06:35:16 GMT, mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin) said:
MT> =................................................... No nice
MT> =high resolution text modes.
MT> Not true :( vidcontrol(1) lets you set modes to 50x80 or 60x80
MT> and others, depending on what your hardware supports. It can
MT> also load fonts and change back- and foregraound colors. Other
MT> things...
But incomparable to SVGATextmode. It can do any mode (just like XFree
can), e.g. 100x40 or whatever, at any refresh frequency (like 120HZ)
that your monitor and videoboard support. It can put your screen in
highres text mode (such as 1024x768 pixels) to display nice looking
modes with a large number of rows&columns.
vidcontrol just lets you choose some fixed modes, not any custom modes
you might like (and that look good). Please correct me if I'm wrong. I
especially like 100 columns and 40 lines. If I can do that with
vidcontrol I'd really like to hear it.
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