"A. Scott White" wrote: > I want to use a different vga text mode (like 80x50) on my terminal. I do > not like to use X Windows, it is too slow. I prefer to use the standard, > text based terminal. I want, however, to be able to see more text on the > screen at one time. Have you tried the svgatextmode package ? apt-get install svgatextmode That's what I use instead of the kernel vga settings. HTH -- RM