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Old 14th December 2013
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I did a few experiments; here's a summary of the results:

On desktop (i386 with Rage RF card)

First I tried to use 80x50 mode, as described in the FAQ, with OpenBSD (5.3). I got the same results as hanzer: only the top half of the characters showed up. I figured that maybe my card is not capable either, but this is wrong, because ...

I then tried it with NetBSD 6.1.2 on the same machine. The 80x50 mode showed up without any problem. Conclusion: the card is capable, and it seems like an OpenBSD bug.

On laptop (amd64 running i386 BSDs, with radeon HD 6310 graphics)

Here OpenBSD (5.4 snapshot) uses the framebuffer console. I don't know if this can be disabled, so I couldn't try 80x50 mode. As for the framebuffer, it seems to be using radeondrm(4). I have attached a dmesg to this post.

Tried NetBSD HEAD and 80x50 mode worked ok.

One other thought: Does your machine with the Rage XL also have graphics on the motherboard? If so can you get 80x50, or a framebuffer, with that (not using the Rage XL) ?
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Last edited by IdOp; 14th December 2013 at 08:09 PM. Reason: tweaked final thought
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