Anders Gr�nlund wrote: > Hi again. > I am sorry that I was not clear enough. > I mean terminal I get before I startx. I am not really sure about the > terminolgy. I get /dev/vc/1 from tty so I guess what I have is a "virtual > console". I thought I should be able to configure this with stty.
The stty command is not the right tool for the job. You need a different tool. As it turns out that it does not really matter whether you are talking about one of the virtual consoles or about an xterm or about an actual vt100 terminal. In none of those cases will changing the tty driver rows and columns variable with stty change the actual size of the terminal. Thinking about the actual hardware vt100 terminal and you will see that it cannot make any changes to the size through any command like that. (Things would be pretty interesting if it did!) Changes to the size must happen first. And virtual consoles and xterms and other terminals emulate that hardware behavior. You did not say but I think you might be running a linux kernel. (There are a large number of operating systems and kernels available in the world. To you running on your own system it may be obvious. But to me reading your message unless you say then I have to guess from the large number of available ones to select from.) In that case if you specify vga=ask on the linux kernel command line at boot time it should prompt you with a list of supported video modes. Select one and try it. Not all modes will produce good results. If you find a video mode that you like that is not the default and always want to boot that way you can modify your bootloader (grub, lilo, etc. There are also a large number of boot loaders available too.) to always boot with that command line. For the linux kernel see the file Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt included in the linux kernel source for more information. Bob > Maybe > this should be done with a kernel parameter at boot instead. I've read a > lot if stuff about the frambuffer and vesafb etc. I've compiled a new > kernel and am checking out the various kernel params. I'd be glad to hear > from you if you can help me. > > I hope I don't bother you too much. > Kind regards, > > Anders. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
