Re: changing console size to 800x600
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, louie miranda wrote:
> Hi, im researching about changing my resolution to 800x600 from 640x480
> only.
> Is this possible on Linux's console? What arguement should i pass on to my
> kernel
> and some commands that i can use? Doc's?..
Two methodes are to use:
WHat i suggest, is that you get framebuffer support into your kernel,
and with fbset you set the resolution, for example:
fbset "800x600-75"
(apt-get install fbset to get the command.)
Docs:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html
man 8 fbset
the other opportunity is svgatextmode:
dent:~# apt-cache show svgatextmode
Package: svgatextmode
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 689
Maintainer: Ron Lee <ron@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.9-9
Depends: console-tools, libc6 (>= 2.2.4-2)
Filename: pool/main/s/svgatextmode/svgatextmode_1.9-9_i386.deb
Size: 336138
MD5sum: ba6767fe2a852ec254fc69b1d937d0bd
Description: Run higher resolution text modes.
This program is designed to greatly improve the normal (EGA-based)
textmodes
on your Linux machine. It uses an Xconfig-like configuration file to set
up
better looking textmodes. (=higher resolution, larger font size, higher
display refresh...) This is already a big boon on normal 14" displays,
and
it is an immense difference on larger and better (15" and up) screens.
It stems from the idea that it is a real waste of hardware to use EGA
textmodes on an SVGA-card, which was designed to do much better than
that.
.
This package is mainly of use to people with older hardware that is not
adequately supported by the Linux framebuffer drivers. If you abhor
80x25
text modes as much as I do but have a modern cpu and video hardware, then
building a kernel with framebuffer support is probably a better option.
Some newer video cards are not supported by this package at all (but are
supported by the kernel fb drivers)
WARNING: This program will not work on non-VGA based systems. Installing
it
will not do any harm, but activating the program can.
dent:~#
charlie
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