On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:33:21AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 01:45:34AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:57:55PM -0500, David Bellows wrote: > > > The numbers in the second column are in hex. The proper way to specify > > > hex for lilo would be (for you specifically): > > > vga=0x0122 > > > > is there any way to change the console resolution after boot? > > > > or are we stuck with a microso~1 - like 'windont has detected > > that you moved your mouse; would you like to reboot now?' > > you can with framebuffer consoles, man fbset.
% man fbset fbset(8) Linux frame buffer utils fbset(8) NAME fbset - show and modify frame buffer device settings SYNOPSIS fbset [options] [mode] DESCRIPTION This documentation is out of date!! <snip> eh? out of date? -- and, question: at what point in a newbie's travails with linux would he encounter the concept that video modes are controlled through gizmos entitled 'frame buffers'? check this out: % apropos monitor rpc.statd (8) - NSM status monitor sniffit (8) - packet sniffer and monitoring tool statd (8) - NSM status monitor % apropos resolution resolution: nothing appropriate. % apropos display DBI::Format (3pm) - A package for displaying result tables Data::ShowTable (3pm) - routines to display tabular data in several formats. DBI::Format (3pm) - A package for displaying result tables cal (1) - displays a calendar echo (1) - display a line of text free (1) - Display amount of free and used memory in the system gprof (1) - display call graph profile data ksyms (8) - display exported kernel symbols. ldaptemplates.conf (5) - configuration file for LDAP display template routines look (1) - display lines beginning with a given string mdir (1) - display an MSDOS directory TQ mdu (1) - display the amount of space occupied by an MSDOS directory TQ modinfo (8) - display information about a kernel module mtoolstest (1) - tests and displays the configuration TQ mtype (1) - display contents of an MSDOS file TQ netstat (8) - Display network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, masquerade connections, netlink messages, and multicast memberships objdump (1) - display information from object files. pad (3ncurses) - create and display curses pads pooltype (1) - display a WEB pool file pstree (1) - display a tree of processes readlink (1) - display target of symbolic link on standard output ref-elvis (1) - Display a C function header showcfont (1) - displays all characters in the current screen-font. top (1) - display top CPU processes whatis (1) - display manual page descriptions whiptail (1) - display dialog boxes from shell scripts xferstats (8) - displays FTP usage statistics xferstats.wu-ftpd (8) - displays FTP usage statistics Xsecurity (3x) - X display access control gxditview (1x) - display gtroff output files % apropos vga consolechars (8) - load EGA/VGA console screen font, screen-font map, and/or application-charset map. % apropos console con2fbmap (8) - hows and set mapping between consoles and framebuffer devices. console (4) - console terminal and virtual consoles console_codes (4) - Linux console escape and control sequences console_ioctl (4) - ioctl's for console terminal and virtual consoles console_ioctls (4) - ioctl's for console terminal and virtual consoles consolechars (8) - load EGA/VGA console screen font, screen-font map, and/or application-charset map. dselect (8) - console Debian package handling frontend fgconsole (1) - print the number of the active VT. gpm (8) - a cut and paste utility and mouse server for virtual consoles psfaddtable (1) - add a Unicode character table to a console font psfgettable (1) - extract the embedded Unicode character table from a console font psfstriptable (1) - remove the embedded Unicode character table from a console font resizecons (8) - change kernel idea of the console size syslog (2) - read and/or clear kernel message ring buffer; set console_loglevel unicode_start (1) - put the console in Unicode mode. unicode_stop (1) - put the console out of unicode mode (ie. in 8-bit mode). didja see it? it actually showed up! even a newbie could... NOT! -- # con2fbmap /dev/console open /dev/fb0: No such device # fbset /dev/console open /dev/fb0: No such device so, here's the next (inevitable) question: when /dev/fb* doesn't exist, what now? successive question (if i ever get to this point): /etc/fb.modes indicates pixels, as in 640x480 and 1600x1200; how do you map those to, say, 132 console characters across and 32 lines down? -- There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison. --William Glasser [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.dontUthink.com/