/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt Also, you have to have framebuffer support compiled into your kernel. If you happen to have a matrox card, then you'll wanto look at: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt instead. Sean On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 09:45, Rafe B. wrote: > > Is there a way to work in debian, outside of > X-windows, using a text layout other than that > awful, klunky 80-column x 25-row VGA arrangement? > > Eg., in DOS one could opt for smaller characters > using the 'mode' command, and achieve 50 lines x > 132 chars. > > Better yet would be a crude windowing system > that works entirely in text mode (eg., similar > to some pre-Win-3.1 tools from the mid 1980s.) > > > > rafe b. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- GPG Public Key available: http://nimh.freeshell.org/gpg_key.txt
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