Re: Screen size

2002-08-26 Thread pa3gcu
On Tuesday 27 August 2002 02:28, Ray Olszewski wrote: > > Richard said more about the framebuffer than I know, but that is, I think, > not what you are asking about. The man page for lilo.conf includes this bit > (about the vga= parameter)-- > >If this variable is omitted, the VGA

Re: Screen size

2002-08-26 Thread pa3gcu
On Tuesday 27 August 2002 05:14, Theo. Sean Schulze wrote: > 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

Re: Screen size

2002-08-26 Thread Theo. Sean Schulze
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 af

Re: Screen size

2002-08-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
See below. At 03:08 PM 8/26/02 +0100, 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 virtu

Re: Screen size

2002-08-26 Thread pa3gcu
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

Screen size

2002-08-26 Thread Riley Williams
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