> The 80x50 LILO can give me, also gives me 8x8 pixel characters. > Using SVGATextMode I have 116x51 using 16x9 pixel characters. > Readable characters are enough reason for me.
I don't even remember what I am using in lilo but I am quite happy with it (bully for me). > But if you haven't configured SVGATextMode properly it shouldn't > start at all at boot time. First configure it and be confident that > it really works on your hardware, then make it start at boot time. Maybe it shouldn't start but it DID start. I was more than surprised as I am all but certain that I did NOT explicitely choose to install SVGATextMode when in dselect. In any event it did install and the next time the machines was booted, consoles were fouled up. Upon reading the docs for the program and experiementing with it, I got it to work except for the corruption following a switch from X. I remember that there were some comments about switching back and forth and I am pretty sure that I tried at least some suggestions but to no avail. The 'bigger issue' to me was that even though I was pleased with flexibility provided for consoles, I don't like the idea of something that 'messes' with the console that can break single user mode. Thus, there was not much motivation for me to try to track down the X -> SVGATextMode corruption. If I really felt a strong need to use it though, I would play around with how it is started so that it would not start automagically when in single user mode. While such a change is probably 'brutally simple', insuring that future updates of the package file did not 'undo' the change is, I think, not trivial. -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: "The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft!" See! They do get some things right! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .