Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen
From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: 80x43
Message-ID: <1687@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 21 Nov 89 20:44:00 GMT
References: <57@van-bc.UUCP> <11256@dasys1.UUCP> <67@van-bc.UUCP> <1989Nov21.022428.28349@contact.uucp>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
Lines: 23

In article <1989Nov21.022428.28349@contact.uucp> eisen@contact.UUCP (Martin Loeffler) writes:
| In a slightly related circumstance... My VGA card has built-in modes of
| operation (ie. 132x60 mode. Tiny, but visible). Does Xenix have any facility to
| access these modes, or is it totally dependant on it's own screen fonts?


  As far as I know the current release doesn't support these modes. I'm
not sure about the 132 col modes (my IBM book has been borrowed) but the
true IBM will support 50 line mode, so there's no reason not to support
that. And for running X, the stock card will go to 360x480x256, and
800x600x16, so those modes could (and should) be offered.

  The code to do this is in the fractint v10.0 source, available from
simtel20 and permitted to use. This could be added quite easily, since
the code to change modes is already in the vidi command, and I *hope*
it's all table driven. I use 43 lines mode a bit, but the 60 line mode
may actually be easier to read, it seems to have one extra blank line
between lines, for easier reading.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon