Hi Michal and Gilbert,

Thanks for all the help.  After playing with some of
the settings I changed, I found out I changed
something in /etc/ttys that wasn't supposed to be
altered.  After fixing it, I can now login under the
default console at 80x25 and then can switch to the
other 80x50 consoles. 

Also, what does the gnu screen do?  Is there any
benefits using that?

Thanks,
J Silverman
--- Michal Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl>
wrote:

> 
> If you're looking for a quick fix and need a hi-res
> console, go for XFree86.
> If you dislike GUI, you can use no windowmanager -
> or some "evil"
> windowmanagers like ion, ratpoison or evilwm.
> 
> The truth is, that currently no BSD variant will
> give you a console with
> such abilities as the Linux framebuffer.
> 
> -- 
> Michal Pasternak :: http://pasternak.w.lub.pl
> 
--- Gilbert Fernandes <gilbertf@netbsd-fr.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 07:09:36AM -0700, JS wrote:

> 
> To switch to 80x50 you need first to edit
> wscons.conf and remove the comment in front of the
> ibm font line. Then just edit the few lines you
> want for 80x50 and leave the first console (on which
> you boot and that gets kernel messages) to 80x25,
> with the following entries :
> 
> #screen 0       -       vt100
> screen  1       80x50   vt100
> screen  2       80x50   vt100
> screen  3       80x50   vt100
> 
> Then check your /etc/ttys and make sure it looks
> like this on the beginning :
> 
> console "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         vt100   on
> secure
> ttyE0   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         vt220   off
> secure
> ttyE1   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         vt220   on 
> secure
> ttyE2   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         vt220   on 
> secure
> (etc.)
> 
> I leave ttyE0 as off and all consoles I move to
> 80x50 get to "on".
> 
> Using this config will get you 80x25 on first
> console,
> and 80x50 on the 2 or 3 ones that follow.
> 
> I strongly advise you to install and use gnu screen,
> available in pkgsrc in /usr/pkgsrc/misc/screen
> to use with 80x50
> 
> -- 
> Gilbert Fernandes

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