Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Monday 16 April 2007 10:14, Jonathan Arnold wrote: >> Randall R Schulz wrote: >>> On Monday 16 April 2007 09:50, Jonathan Arnold wrote: >>>> M Harris wrote: >>>>> On Monday 16 April 2007 10:24, Jonathan Arnold wrote: >>>>>> How do I change the video mode in my text consoles from the >>>>>> normal 80x25 to something more usable, like say 50x132? >>>>> If you mean your Alt-F1 -- F6 black screen consoles, then you >>>>> can do that in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Try vga=0x317 as >>>>> in the following: >>>>> >>>>> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 vga=0x317 selinux=0 >>>>> resume=/dev/sda3 splash=silent showopts >>>> Yes, I mean my Alt-F? virtual terminals. So I can only change >>>> this at boot time? No way to change it once I'm running? >>> No, that's not true, you can change it on-the-fly. >>> >>> % man fbset >>> >>> (Use with care--you are, of necessity, modifying video hardware >>> parameters.) >> I get a : >> >> open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory >> >> when I try to use fbset. I don't see any 'fb' device or folder in my >> /dev folder. > > I don't know if this is relevant, but according to the "--help" output: > > % fbset --help > ... > Frame buffer special device nodes: > -fb <device> : processed frame buffer device > (default is /dev/fb0; /dev/fb/0 when using devfs)
I didn't have the devs package installed. I installed that and now see /dev/fb0, /dev/fb1 and /dev/fb2 (as well as /dev/fb, which is a link to /dev/fb0). I still get the error from fbset, but perhaps it is awaiting a reboot. And I seem to remember a 50 line console before, but maybe that was in the other kernel, before the xen one? -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
