At 11:01 18/05/2001, Conor Daly wrote:
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>OK console heads... I use console (well, xterms) almost exclusively
>myself. The reason I use terms rather than the consoles is I can get more
>onto the screen. Like, an 80x25 char display on a 19" monitor is not the
>most efficient use of real estate. I'm writing this in a 124x47
>gnome-terminal and can read all the all of the subject lines in mutt. So
>now, the point of these ramblings... Can I set the console to 128x50 or
>something like that? Had a look at stty but couldn't find anything
>helpful there.
I've seen it done using the vga parameters in lilo.conf. I've never really
tried it myself.. My linux box at home only has a 9" vga screen so there's
not much I can do with that.. I tend to work using ssh most of the time myself.
Just yanked this out of the lilo.conf man page:
vga=mode
This specifies the VGA text mode that should be
selected when booting. The following values are
recognized (case is ignored):
normal: select normal 80x25 text mode.
extended (or ext): select 80x50 text mode.
ask: stop and ask for user input (at boot time).
<number>: use the corresponding text mode. A list
of available modes can be obtained by booting with
vga=ask and pressing [Enter].
If this variable is omitted, the VGA mode setting
contained in the kernel image is used. (And that is
set at compile time using the SVGA_MODE variable in
the kernel Makefile, and can later be changed with
the rdev(8) program.)
Try using ask and see what it gives you.. :)
Hope that helps, (And that the mail server here at work doesn't object too
strongly to relaying this for me :))
Paul
