FreeBSD vs Linux: more than 80 chars.
Vulpes Velox
v.velox at vvelox.net
Fri Sep 3 21:53:45 PDT 2004
On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 04:22:22 +0200
Gianmarco <gmarco at giovannelli.it> wrote:
> Hi, the question is very simple.
>
> I'd like to have more than 80 chars on my console.
> My env is:
> * Dell latitude D600
> * FreeBSD 5.3-ALPHA
> * ATI Radeon Lf R250 Mobility 9000 M9
>
> My vidcontrol -i mode shows:
>
> --> begin <--
>
> mode# flags type size font window
> linear buffer
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------
> 24 (0x018) 0x00000001 T 80x25 8x16 0xb8000 32k 32k
> 0x00000000 32k 30 (0x01e) 0x00000001 T 80x50 8x8
> 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k 32 (0x020) 0x00000001 T 80x30
> 8x16 0xb8000 32k 32k 0x00000000 32k
> 34 (0x022) 0x00000001 T 80x60 8x8 0xb8000 32k 32k
> 0x00000000 32k
> [...]
> 259 (0x103) 0x0000000f G 800x600x8 1 8x14 0xa0000 64k 64k
> 0xe8000000 32704k
> [...]
> 275 (0x113) 0x0000000f G 800x600x15 1 8x14 0xa0000 64k 64k
> 0xe8000000 32704k
> 276 (0x114) 0x0000000f G 800x600x16 1 8x14 0xa0000 64k 64k
> 0xe8000000 32704k
> 277 (0x115) 0x0000000f G 800x600x24 1 8x14 0xa0000 64k 64k
> 0xe8000000 32704k
> [...]
> 290 (0x122) 0x0000000f G 800x600x32 1 8x14 0xa0000 64k 64k
> 0xe8000000 32704k
>
> ---> end <---
>
> I have removed any line different from the text mode and from
> 800x600. The full output is here if needed :
> http://www.gufi.org/~gmarco/files/vid.txt
>
> I have used in the kernel:
> options VESA
> options SC_PIXEL_MODE
>
> But I am not able to use any mode wider than 80 chars (and this is
> shown in the vidcontrol. Nor I am able to use any VESA_800x600
> graphic mode.
>
> Now I am asking here if am I missed something because some Linux
> distributions I boot seems to use graphical modes and/or more than
> 80 chars x line.
Try a different font. Also there is another option in the kernel for
like 90 or whatever... IIRC the defualt console font used limits it a
bit.
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