On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 03:11:52PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 03:30:10PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote: > > | Just wondering if anyone knows of a video card that supports very high > | density text in console. > | > | The card I'm using(Trident 9880) does 132x60, but I'm looking for > | something smaller, as this still feels large even on a 14" monitor. > | > | Anyone know of video cards that have these funky VESA modes that go that > | high? > > My SiS 6326 (a cheap AGP card) supports 1280x1024@24. I'm using the > vesa framebuffer (requires recompiling the kernel even though the docs > say otherwise, IME). I use 0x31B as the vga= parameter to my kernel. > I can certainly fit a lot of text on the screen. Far more than 60 > lines vertically, and I don't know how many wide. ~>stty size > | Is there even a VESA mode that high? :D > | > | I looked through SVGA.txt, but it doesn't seem to help me much > > VESA and VGA are different. VGA is text-based, VESA is > graphics-based. Look at fb/vesafb.txt.gz instead. You can also try > the tridentfb driver, but I think it is brand new and not stable yet. I use framebuffers on the console at 1864x1400 in 60 Hz, and (more often) 1600x1200 at 60 Hz. I prefer to waste real screen estate on a nice font though (Sun12x22). PS. After a kernel upgrade (don't remember to what kernel) my customized boot argument to the fb driver (See the fb/framebuffer.txt for making custom mode lines) didn't work any more (just a blank screen), so now I have a boot script to get 1864x1400. -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux emac140 2.4.17 #1 sön feb 10 20:21:22 CET 2002 i686 unknown Hans Ekbrand
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