Re: Default console text mode to 80x40

Andrew Doran <[email protected]> Sun, 1 Dec 2019 12:21:32 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.x86-64,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.i386
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Sun, Dec 01, 2019 at 01:17:13PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 01, 2019 at 12:08:10PM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have been doing a lot of work at the console lately because X11 does not
> > work on the machine I have.  80x40 is much more usable than 80x25. 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> I though the font (and so the character resolution) was now selected based
> on the display's resolution and DPI ? What monitor do you have ?

This system boots up in text mode and does not use VESA or anything like
that.  It's all standard VGA text resolutions.

Andrew