On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 06:56:53PM -0500, Mike Hernandez wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 05:45:52PM -0600, Igor Vilensky wrote: > > How does one control appearance of console/fonts on the screen? > > On one laptop, letters are quite large and console fills entire screen, on > > another, letters are tiny and the console fills a fraction > > of the screen. > > > Check out the man pages for: > > wsconscfg, wsconsctl, wsfontload
Failing that, and if X works properly, you might want to check out ratpoison. It is comparatively heavy (or, rather, the X server is comparatively heavy), but it does allow you to more-or-less use a couple of consoles under X, with the added bonus of actually running X programs too. Joachim