Console size and scrollback buffer.

[Fbsd1]

James Williams wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> [On FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2, i386.]
> 
> 1) How can I change the number of rowsxcols of the console? I'd like
> to use the maximum rows/cols available for the 1440x900 screen.
> 
> 2) How can these settings be made default (takes effect at boot)?
> 
> IOW, what is the equivalent of the "vga=0x365" Linux kernel option?
> 
> 3) How I can set the scrollback buffer size (if that's the name) of
> the console -- the equivalent of Shift+{PgUp,PgDn} on Linux?
> 
> I played around with vidcontrol but was not quite successful.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> -James.
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try   adding this in /etc/rc.conf
vidcontrol -h 200
# -h = Set the size of the history scrollback buffer in number of lines.