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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!news.eecs.umich.edu!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!207.241.0.194!news.wwa.com!news.ucdavis.edu!hchau From: hchau@curie.cs.ucdavis.edu (Hung Chau) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Console setup Date: 9 Jun 1997 21:16:55 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 27 Message-ID: <slrn5posn5.9e.hchau@curie.cs.ucdavis.edu> References: <33933152.D1A@nettipaja.clinet.fi> <5n0p74$5bl@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> <slrn5p99hd.1jg.ripley@nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de> <5n8nfe$20d@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> <339BB0CE.3736@freebsd.org> Reply-To: hchau@curie.cs.ucdavis.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: curie.cs.ucdavis.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42709 On Mon, 09 Jun 1997 09:29:18 +0200, Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.org> wrote: >Hmm, there are complications on doing this during the boot fase, >but one can easily set it up in rc.something or in /usr/local/etc/rc.d >like this: > >vidcontrol -f 8x8 iso-8x8 >for tty in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f >do > vidcontrol VGA_80x60 < /dev/ttyv$tty >done I have tried all of the variations above on FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE. All I get is a mangle screen with the letters squash. Am I missing something here? I have tried Edit /etc/sysconfiga and adding the line font8x8=/usr/share/syscons/fonts/cp437-8x8.fnt Editing the profile and rc.local as suggest in the tutorial document And the above and many variations with each time the same effect. Am I missing something here? Hung