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Re: Console display - font & line sizes



On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 12:49:57PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote:
> hi all
> 
> Does anyone know how to set the number of characters per line & number of
> lines per screen for the console??

At boot, "vga=ask" as a LILO boot prompt option.

Otherwise:

    $ apt-get install svgatextmode
	$ man SVGATextMode

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