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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!xfer.kren.nm.kr!newsfeed.dacom.co.kr!nntp.kreonet.re.kr!newsfeed.kreonet.re.kr!news.imnet.ad.jp!ripspost.aist.go.jp!etlnews.etl.go.jp!wnoc-tyo-news!news.nc.u-tokyo.ac.jp!train.ad.jp!iroha.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp!nikko.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp!yokota From: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp. (Kazutaka YOKOTA) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Vidcontrol Question Date: 5 Jul 1997 06:02:04 GMT Organization: Utsunomiya University, Utsunomiya, Japan Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5pko0s$b8n$1@nikko.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> References: <5p4pf8$kj4@news1-alterdial.uu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp X-Newsreader: mnews [version 1.19PL2] 1996-01/26(Fri) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43976 In article <5p4pf8$kj4@news1-alterdial.uu.net> for comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Todd D Suess wrote: root>>I am having a small problem with the vidcontrol facility.. If I try to change root>>to any video mode higher than VGA_80x25, I get the following message from root>>Vidcontrol. root>> root>>cannot set videomode - invalid argument root>> root>>The exact command I am trying to execute is: root>> root>>vidcontrol VGA_80x50 You need to load appropriate font first. Font files are in /usr/share/syscons/fonts. See the vidcontrol's man page. You need 8x14 font for EGA_80x25, 8x8 font for VGA_80x50, VGA_80x60 and EGA_80x43. 8x16, which is the default font already loaded in VGA_80x25 mode, is required for VGA_80x25 and VGA_80x30. Kazu