there's also some nice documentation on the web about this at: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html ~jason On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 12:35:27PM -0500, Jason M. Harvey wrote: | On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:19:23AM -0500, Mike McCue wrote: | | | | | | | | It was on the console, no X here. It was even present at bootup (LILO... | | then all the scrolling boot stuff)... Does your recommendation apply to | | xterm or the console ? | | | | > | | >What do you mean? the console or the xterm? | | >One of the ways is the frame buffer? | | > | | >You might want to read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt | | > | | >hope that helps | | > | | >evgeni | | > | | >-----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- | | >Von: Mike McCue [mailto:mccuem1@msn.com] | | >Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2002 16:34 | | >An: debian-user@lists.debian.org | | >Betreff: command line font size ? | | > | | >A while back I saw a friend's ZipSlack install, and the font he had on the | | >command line was a little smaller than that of my command line on my debian | | >install. Is there a way to change the font of the command line in Debian ? | | > | | >(Can't fit much on this 14" screen... <G>) | | > | | >Thanks, | | >Mike | | > | | > | | sounds to me like, in console, the frame buffer as mentioned in that txt | file. i wonder if you'd need your kernel's source on your machine to | have that file?... not sure. i saw that myself, and loved it. i haven't | set it up yet tho. | | ~jason | | ------------------------------------------------------------- | | registered linux user #202942 | http://counter.li.org/ | | | Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Woody | 2.4.16-k6 | | | jason@theigloo.dhs.org | http://theigloo.dhs.org | | ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- | registered linux user #202942 | http://counter.li.org/ | | Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Woody | 2.4.16-k6 | | jason@theigloo.dhs.org | http://theigloo.dhs.org | -------------------------------------------------------------
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