I also experience that mysterious "something" after I boot my SuSE Linux system.As far as I can figure out, I have all the configuration files set correctly for an 80x50x9 screen, but I still get an 80x25 screen after a boot. What I do now is enter the command 'SVGATextMode 80x50x8' as root after I boot. That clears it up rather nicely, and since I don't reboot all that often, it is only a minor irritation.
Actually, what is more irritating is that I would prefer Richard's 1024x768 screen or something close to that. It seems like a waste of monitor real estate on a 19" monitor to have it set to 80x50x9. 'Course I will never go blind from squinting at the screen. :-) I have done some reading into using SVGATextMode and experimented with some better settings. But, when I set them up, the text gets stair-stepped down the screen, and it becomes unusable. Then I just blind type the command above, and I am back in business. Seems that it is a lot harder to find good info on setting up the text console now that everybody and his brother wants a GUI of some sort or another. By the way, you might also want to look at man SVGATextMode and at /etc/TextConfig. Cheers, Sean On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:08:04PM +0100, Riley Williams hunted and pecked out: > 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. > > 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? > > 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. > > Best wishes from Riley. > > - > 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 -- Theo. Sean Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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
