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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!news-xfer.cybernet.dk!news.kolumbus.fi!news.funet.fi!news.cs.hut.fi!news.clinet.fi!nettipaja.clinet.fi!bisqwit From: Joel Yliluoma <bisqwit@nettipaja.clinet.fi> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Console setup Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 19:07:48 +0200 Organization: Clinet, Espoo, Finland. Lines: 36 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970603190349.19890A-100000@nettipaja.clinet.fi> References: <199706031458.QAA23680@wicx20.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: nettipaja.clinet.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-User: bisqwit In-Reply-To: <199706031458.QAA23680@wicx20.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42190 On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Matthias Buelow wrote: > In article <5702712738A14403.92FD7A3077910D79.3590D9E55A0EECF9@library-proxy.airnews.net> you 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. Could anybody help me? > : 132x60 mode would be cool, especially for programming purposes! :-) > Why don't you RTFM and have a look at "man vidcontrol"? Well when I was writing this message, I did not know there is such program named vidcontrol. Now I know, and the problems (except 132) have been solved. Strange the whole FreeBSD manual doesn't mention such program. > IMHO, 132*xx is NOT good for programming (you won't wrap your lines at 79 > chars if the screen is much wider, will you?) That could be true. > and X11 might be a better > idea to get more out of your video card. In 5 megs you don't install X11. And IMHO, X11 consumes a lot of space, a lot of power and gives you nothing (except allows you to run iNES).F FreeBSD is big. I had Slackware Linux with many tools and toys plus X11 on this partition, and there was 11 megs of free space generally. Now there's FreeBSD in the same 200 megs and there is only bare configuration, kernel, and few tiny programs compiled, no X11, and there's really LACK of free space. I wish I could use the old 36 megs Linux Swap partition, that now has no use. The 36 megs is a part of FreeBSD partition. *Unhappy*. :( ****************************************************** * Joel Yliluoma <mailto:bisqwit@nettipaja.clinet.fi> ********* * <http://www.nettipaja.clinet.fi/~bisqwit> <ircnet:Bisqwit> * ************************************************************** * Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the * * life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (Joh 14:6) * **************************************************************