Re: console rows/cols -- configurable?
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:38:04PM -0500, Allan Streib wrote:
> I'm setting up a PowerMac 6500. Since it only has 32MB RAM I am not going
> to run X Windows, but instead plan to use it as a light duty server. I
> previously had LinuxPPC 2000 Q4 running on this box and since that distro
> is no longer maintained am rebuilding it with Debian.
>
> I did notice that LinuxPPC or maybe just that kernel (2.2.something) gave
> me a console that was bigger than 80x25, probably closer to 120x40 or so.
> I'd like to get that again, can anyone tell me if that is a setting I can
> change. Many thanks,
>
> Allan
Out of my league here, but on my box in dmesg I see that it starts out
at 80x24 but when the framebuffer (aty128fb) loads, it switches to a
clolour frame buffer device 128x48.
I believe that stty can be used to set it after startup.
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