Re: default framebuffer

[Russell Whitaker]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2012, Ken Moffat wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:04:43AM -0400, Nick Bowler wrote:
> > Hi Russell,
> >
> > On 2012-04-15 21:37 -0700, Russell Whitaker wrote:
> > > What should I do to keep the screen at 80x25?
> >
> > Load a bigger console font.  For example, the Terminus font package
> > http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/ includes some nice console fonts
> > in a variety of sizes.  Try
> >
> >   setfont ter-132b
> >
> > to start.  Your distribution probably provides a convenient way to set
> > the console font at boot.
> >
> > Hope that helps,
>
> Alternatively, add video=something to the commandline in your
> bootloader.  I've got a 1600x1200 screen.  On some machines I use my
> 12x22 font, on the others I use my 8x16 font with video=1024x768 ¹
> Oh, and on my netbook I use the 12x22 for something like 95x30.  But
> I also guess that exactly 80x25 is not necessarily critical,
> provided the characters are legible.
>
> I've no idea which video= values work, and I'm using a lot more
> than 80x25, but perhaps video=800x600 or video=640x480 (assuming, of
> course, that you have a 4:3 screen and not the now-common 16:10)
> with a small font will be in the right area.

Just now put video=640x480 in grub's menu.lst and I got a 80x30 screen.
That's satisfactory, howeber will also try the larger font suggestion, 
too.

Thanks guys
   Russ
> ¹ LatGrkCyr - they are in kbd as of 1.15.3, but there's no telling
> whether you will like it - people using a light background almost
> certainly will hate it.
>
> ken
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