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From: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Console setup
Date: 3 Jun 1997 12:20:46 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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 Joel Yliluoma <bisqwit@nettipaja.clinet.fi> wrote:
> How can I get rid of the keyhole-80x25 console mode? 
> When I had Linux I loved to have 80x60 screen mode.
> Now I am cursing because FreeBSD is and stays in 80x25 mode, and 
> I can get info nowhere how to fix that.

You could've tried "apropos video" :-)

> Could anybody help me?

vidcontrol -f 8x8 /usr/share/syscons/fonts/cp850-8x8.fnt
(to load the font; there are other ones in that directory)
vidcontrol VGA_80x50
(to set the mode; have a look at vidcontrol -h for other modes)

> 132x60 mode would be cool, especially for programming purposes! :-)

I think the pcvt console can do this with some video cards, but the normal
console driver doesn't support it.

Bye, Philipp