Re: Lilo and vga=mode Question
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:33:21AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 01:45:34AM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:57:55PM -0500, David Bellows wrote:
> > > The numbers in the second column are in hex. The proper way to specify
> > > hex for lilo would be (for you specifically):
> > > vga=0x0122
> >
> > is there any way to change the console resolution after boot?
> >
> > or are we stuck with a microso~1 - like 'windont has detected
> > that you moved your mouse; would you like to reboot now?'
>
> you can with framebuffer consoles, man fbset.
% man fbset
fbset(8) Linux frame buffer utils fbset(8)
NAME
fbset - show and modify frame buffer device settings
SYNOPSIS
fbset [options] [mode]
DESCRIPTION
This documentation is out of date!!
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eh? out of date?
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and, question: at what point in a newbie's travails with linux
would he encounter the concept that video modes are controlled
through gizmos entitled 'frame buffers'? check this out:
% apropos monitor
rpc.statd (8) - NSM status monitor
sniffit (8) - packet sniffer and monitoring tool
statd (8) - NSM status monitor
% apropos resolution
resolution: nothing appropriate.
% apropos display
DBI::Format (3pm) - A package for displaying result tables
Data::ShowTable (3pm) - routines to display tabular data in several formats.
DBI::Format (3pm) - A package for displaying result tables
cal (1) - displays a calendar
echo (1) - display a line of text
free (1) - Display amount of free and used memory in the system
gprof (1) - display call graph profile data
ksyms (8) - display exported kernel symbols.
ldaptemplates.conf (5) - configuration file for LDAP display template routines
look (1) - display lines beginning with a given string
mdir (1) - display an MSDOS directory TQ
mdu (1) - display the amount of space occupied by an MSDOS directory TQ
modinfo (8) - display information about a kernel module
mtoolstest (1) - tests and displays the configuration TQ
mtype (1) - display contents of an MSDOS file TQ
netstat (8) - Display network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, masquerade connections, netlink messages, and multicast memberships
objdump (1) - display information from object files.
pad (3ncurses) - create and display curses pads
pooltype (1) - display a WEB pool file
pstree (1) - display a tree of processes
readlink (1) - display target of symbolic link on standard output
ref-elvis (1) - Display a C function header
showcfont (1) - displays all characters in the current screen-font.
top (1) - display top CPU processes
whatis (1) - display manual page descriptions
whiptail (1) - display dialog boxes from shell scripts
xferstats (8) - displays FTP usage statistics
xferstats.wu-ftpd (8) - displays FTP usage statistics
Xsecurity (3x) - X display access control
gxditview (1x) - display gtroff output files
% apropos vga
consolechars (8) - load EGA/VGA console screen font, screen-font map, and/or application-charset map.
% apropos console
con2fbmap (8) - hows and set mapping between consoles and framebuffer devices.
console (4) - console terminal and virtual consoles
console_codes (4) - Linux console escape and control sequences
console_ioctl (4) - ioctl's for console terminal and virtual consoles
console_ioctls (4) - ioctl's for console terminal and virtual consoles
consolechars (8) - load EGA/VGA console screen font, screen-font map, and/or application-charset map.
dselect (8) - console Debian package handling frontend
fgconsole (1) - print the number of the active VT.
gpm (8) - a cut and paste utility and mouse server for virtual consoles
psfaddtable (1) - add a Unicode character table to a console font
psfgettable (1) - extract the embedded Unicode character table from a console font
psfstriptable (1) - remove the embedded Unicode character table from a console font
resizecons (8) - change kernel idea of the console size
syslog (2) - read and/or clear kernel message ring buffer; set console_loglevel
unicode_start (1) - put the console in Unicode mode.
unicode_stop (1) - put the console out of unicode mode (ie. in 8-bit mode).
didja see it? it actually showed up! even a newbie could... NOT!
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# con2fbmap /dev/console
open /dev/fb0: No such device
# fbset /dev/console
open /dev/fb0: No such device
so, here's the next (inevitable) question: when /dev/fb* doesn't
exist, what now?
successive question (if i ever get to this point): /etc/fb.modes
indicates pixels, as in 640x480 and 1600x1200; how do you map
those to, say, 132 console characters across and 32 lines down?
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