On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 09:40:41PM +0000, Mick wrote > Leave KMS enabled and add the parameter: > > video=1024x768 (or whatever suits your screen and taste) > > to your kernel line. You shouldn't need vesafb, uvesa or any other > drivers to achieve this.
Thanks very much. That works. I feel stupid. I always used "VGA=6" to get the equivalant of "video=640x480". When "VGA=6" stopped working, it didn't occur to me to try "video=640x480", because I assumed they were identical. Anyhow, I'm typing this in a text console. /etc/conf.d/consolefont is CONSOLEFONT="lat1-10" Combine that with 640x480 video, and that gives me an 80x48 textmode display. Because I'm using a 10-pixel-high font, the text is a lot nicer than VGA 80x50 that you may have seen on Windows. That mode uses an 8-pixel-high font on a 640x400 display for 50 rows. Doing an "ll" finds more lat1-?? fonts in /usr/share/consolefonts, which give the following possible text displays for "video=640x480"... lat1-08 ==> 80x60 lat1-10 ==> 80x48 lat1-12 ==> 80x40 lat1-14 ==> 80x34 lat1-16 ==> 80x30 As they say in the infomercials "but wait, there's more". My monitor supports 1280x720 and 1280x1024 modes. Using "screen" I should be able to do splitscreen mode with 2 sessions side-by-each. Or vim in one screen with :vsplit splitting into two subscreens. Possibilities include two side-by-each sessions of... Font 1280x720 1280x1024 lat1-08 ==> 80x90 80x128 lat1-10 ==> 80x72 80x102 lat1-12 ==> 80x60 80x85 lat1-14 ==> 80x51 80x73 lat1-16 ==> 80x45 80x64 I feel like a kid with a shiney new toy. And when prices for 30 inch monitors come down, I could go nuts with *THREE* 80-column screens side-by-each in 1920x1200 or 1920x1080 video mode. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
