On Monday 26 August 2002 14:08, Riley Williams wrote: > Hi there. > > We're talking about a Red Hat 7.3 system here, but the question is > probably equally relevant both to earlier Red Hat systems and to > other distributions as well. We are also NOT talking about X-Windows > but about the virtual text consoles.
If i may expand the above, i belive this concerns all distro's it is not redhat spesific but a kernel issue via lilo if i may use that word. Please read on. > > When one is booting into Linux, one can specify "vga=1" on the kernel > command line to specify that one wishes to have an 80x50 text screen. > How does one specify this after Linux has finished booting? Huum, i have never done it this way, i prefer to have my system's boot and has a screen with; # VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k Lilo needss to to configured with; vga = 791 in its config file to achive this. If i want another resolution i simply edit lilo.conf and choose another value, or use; vga = ask If the above is used one gets what i think Riley is talking about. Please read on. > > The reason I ask is that although it's specified on the command line, > something during the init process switches it back to 80x25 lines. I'd > prefer to have it in 80x50 mode on this computer though. I dont want to dictate how things work to Riley, however i have encouncerd problems with VESA framebuffer configuration in the past. I recall something simalar due to me not configuring my kernel properly. I have attached a working vesa kernel configuration to this mail for folks to veiw, it contains may things one does not need, i do not mean it to be a perfect configuration but at least it works for me and may even lead to a solution for Riley's problem. As i mentioned above, it may be all of absolutly no relavance to the problem at hand at all. # Console drivers # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y # CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE is not set CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y # CONFIG_FB_PM2 is not set # CONFIG_FB_ATY is not set CONFIG_FB_VESA=y # CONFIG_FB_VGA16 is not set CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y # CONFIG_FB_MATROX is not set CONFIG_FB_ATY128=m # CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED=y CONFIG_FBCON_MFB=m CONFIG_FBCON_CFB2=m CONFIG_FBCON_CFB4=m CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y # CONFIG_FBCON_AFB is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_ILBM is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P2 is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P4 is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P8 is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_MAC is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_VGA_PLANES is not set CONFIG_FBCON_VGA=y # CONFIG_FBCON_FONTWIDTH8_ONLY is not set CONFIG_FBCON_FONTS=y CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y # CONFIG_FONT_SUN8x16 is not set # CONFIG_FONT_SUN12x22 is not set # CONFIG_FONT_6x11 is not set # CONFIG_FONT_PEARL_8x8 is not set # CONFIG_FONT_ACORN_8x8 is not set > > Best wishes from Riley. -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
