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Walter Thank You!
This sounds very like what I am looking for for the consoles (though I would prefer longer lines).
*And* it sounds like it won't mess with X.
If I can't get X & said wider console both working, I'll certainly try this. May even try it next time I boot Gentoo (in win now...) to ease the rest of the install work.
Also printing this!
( B.T.W., Matir in LinuxQuestion.org provided an ATI-X link ::
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers
that looks hopeful; checking now. )Thank You!, Robert G. Hays.
Walter Dnes wrote:
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 06:49:02PM -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote
Tty's are still 80x25, & that's after a **LOT** of work. I really
need this fixed too,
I'll tackle this part. SVGATextMode is an absolute pain to get right. And you don't really need it for a nice crisp 80x48 (YES!) text display. First, make sure that you've enabled alternate text modes to begin with. The "make menuconfig" path is...
Device Drivers ---> Graphics support ---> Console display driver support ---> [*] Video mode selection support
You *MUST* have "Video mode selection support" enabled. If it's not enabled, do so now. Next step is to put "vga=6" into lilo or grub. When you reboot, you'll end up in the alternate VGA text mode, which is 640 pixels across by 480 scanlines. "vga=6" loads the crummy 8x8 CGA fonts. This gives...
640 x 480 --------- = 80 x 60 8 x 8
Lots of lines, but murder on my eyes. Rather than 8 x 8 CGA, I prefer the following option in /etc/rc.conf
CONSOLEFONT="lat1-10"
This invokes an 8 x 10 font, which gives...
640 x 480 --------- = 80 x 48 8 x 10
Because of the extra 25% vertical detail, this gives a *MUCH* more readable display than "vga=1" 80 x 50 mode, which uses CGA 8 x 8 fonts on the default 640 x 400 VGA mode. For more details see my webpage... http://www.waltdnes.org/tips_and_tricks/textmodes.html
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