On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 05:48:08PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:27:30PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > I'd like to change the size of the terminal window shown on screen. > > > > I'm a Debian newbie. I've got Debian installed on our rather nice new > > VALinux rackmount box and I've got it hooked up to a Mitsubishi TFT > > flatscreen monitor. I don't have X running, and I'm doing everything in > > text mode. > > > > At the moment, while the "Intel" picture on startup uses the whole screen > > fine, as soon as Lilo loads linux, the console fills only about 1/4 of the > > area of the screen. > > WAG: try the framebuffer console?
</lurk> okay, what's a framebuffer console? I've been using SVGATextMode to reasonably good effect, changing font size and rows/columns grow/contract to match... don't know about this framebuffer term, tho. And wasn't Rory asking about an xterm window? Does framebuffer apply to that, too? -- does a brain cell think? [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sourceforge.net/projects/newbiedoc -- we need your brain! http://www.dontUthink.com/ -- your brain needs us!