On Monday 16 April 2007 10:14, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Monday 16 April 2007 09:50, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
M Harris wrote:
On Monday 16 April 2007 10:24, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
How do I change the video mode in my text consoles from the normal 80x25 to something more usable, like say 50x132?
If you mean your Alt-F1 -- F6 black screen consoles, then you can do that in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Try vga=0x317 as in the following:
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 vga=0x317 selinux=0 resume=/dev/sda3 splash=silent showopts
Yes, I mean my Alt-F? virtual terminals. So I can only change this at boot time? No way to change it once I'm running?
No, that's not true, you can change it on-the-fly.
% man fbset
(Use with care--you are, of necessity, modifying video hardware parameters.)
I get a :
open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
when I try to use fbset. I don't see any 'fb' device or folder in my /dev folder.
I don't know if this is relevant, but according to the "--help" output: % fbset --help ... Frame buffer special device nodes: -fb <device> : processed frame buffer device (default is /dev/fb0; /dev/fb/0 when using devfs) ...
-- Jonathan Arnold
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