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Re: character fonts in Bash terminal



> The safest bet is trying to use the Vesa framebuffer support, the only
> drawback is the vertical resolution stuck at 60 Hz. I don't have at
> hand the list of code to choose the resolution, anyway try adding
> "vga=791" in the kernel boot options to have 1024x768 (IIRC).
>
>

I've tried this before, with a vga=1 wich stands for 80*50 (my ideal font size).
The problem is that at some point of the boot (maybe Runlevel 3 or something)
the console switches back to standard definition 80*25.
Something is taking over the kernel boot parameters, but what :) ?



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