At 03:00 PM 7/12/2000 -0400, Bill Sconce wrote:
at the LILO boot prompt type linux vga=ask
then it will as you what resolution you want..
once you find the one that you want open up lilo.conf and put it in there....
like vga=6
good luck :-)
~kurth
>mike ledoux wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Kurth Bemis wrote:
> >
> > >how do i get my console to run at a higher resolution? I saw it once on a
> > >list that i was a member of..but i can't seem top track down that mail
> > >right now? I'm using redhack 6.0. Any ideas?
> >
> > 'man SVGATextMode'
> >
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>
>Thanks for this thread, guys. I'd had 132x60 working on my previous Linux
>system, but forgot the magic I'd used to set it up. It's nice to have it
>back...
>
>Along the lines of "why Linux", though, it was REALLY not easy to find this
>stuff, either the first time, or just now. The lilo "ask" routine gets you
>"a" for the code for 132x60, but giving "a" to lilo gets "not a number".
>(The answer seems to be to use "10". Intuitive, yes?)
>
>Speaking of intuitive... "man SVGATextMode" ??
>Yup, we've got work to do for usability.
>
>(BTW*2: that gets "No manual entry for SVGATextMode". RH 6.0 here too.)
>
>-Bill
>
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