Re: Setting Command line to 80 x 25 ascii mode

2011-09-17 Thread Sanjay Arora
Found a temporary reprieve. Unlike Windows, Linux does have fonts in konsle windows. Was able to run the (harbour) recompiled xbase programs in the konsole terminal with larger font size. Need a way to make this konsole full-screen & limited to 80x25 size. Strangely, I can do this on my OS X Lion

Re: Setting Command line to 80 x 25 ascii mode

2011-09-15 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:06 AM, Andrew Parker wrote: > > > adding nomodeset to the kernel params on my laptop gives me 80x25 (and > the GUI appropriately ugly) on F15 Thanks Andrew Got the 80x20 mode on console BUT the X is not booting up...ugly would have been acceptable ;-) Is there a way t

Re: Setting Command line to 80 x 25 ascii mode

2011-09-14 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Hello all I am using kde on fedora 15. I need to setup a couple of login terminals on Alt-F2/F3 to 80x25 ascii resolution (of the dos/cga days). Have researched a lot but can't seem to find a short & simple answer. Please point out links for changing display mode on the fly and permanent change

Re: Setting Command line to 80 x 25 ascii mode

2011-09-14 Thread Andrew Parker
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Sanjay Arora wrote: > Min > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:48 AM, stan wrote: >> >> > How do I get my non-graphic console (I think its a getty terminal) in >> > my display adapter's mode 0? >> >> As Tom said, you can't.  His suggestion of setting the font will work,

Re: Setting Command line to 80 x 25 ascii mode

2011-09-14 Thread Sanjay Arora
Min On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:48 AM, stan wrote: > > > How do I get my non-graphic console (I think its a getty terminal) in > > my display adapter's mode 0? > > As Tom said, you can't. His suggestion of setting the font will work, > sort of, especially if you make the font bold. > > I asked th

Re: Setting Command line to 80 x 25 ascii mode

2011-09-14 Thread stan
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:11:32 +0530 Sanjay Arora wrote: > > I added vga=ask in the grub.conf The system allowed me to list the > > modes > available. The listing itself was in 80x25 mode. I selected mode 0 > (80x25) but after booting the console was again in high resolution > mode. > > How do I g

Re: Setting Command line to 80 x 25 ascii mode

2011-09-14 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Sanjay Arora wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > >> On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:51:00 +0530 >> Sanjay Arora wrote: >> >> > Please point out links for changing display mode on the fly and >> permanent >> > changes. >> >> As far as I know,

Re: Setting Command line to 80 x 25 ascii mode

2011-09-13 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:51:00 +0530 > Sanjay Arora wrote: > > > Please point out links for changing display mode on the fly and permanent > > changes. > > As far as I know, there isn't any way to do this. The best you > can do is make the font

Re: Setting Command line to 80 x 25 ascii mode

2011-09-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:51:00 +0530 Sanjay Arora wrote: > Please point out links for changing display mode on the fly and permanent > changes. As far as I know, there isn't any way to do this. The best you can do is make the font it uses bigger. See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=61

Setting Command line to 80 x 25 ascii mode

2011-09-13 Thread Sanjay Arora
Hello all I am using kde on fedora 15. I need to setup a couple of login terminals on Alt-F2/F3 to 80x25 ascii resolution (of the dos/cga days). Have researched a lot but can't seem to find a short & simple answer. Please point out links for changing display mode on the fly and permanent changes.