Re: changing console size to 800x600
Got it thx a lot! :)
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Thanks,
Louie Miranda...
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Email: louie@linux.nu - louie@noc.chikka.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karoly VEGH" <karoly.vegh@uta.at>
To: "louie miranda" <louie@chikka.com>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 5:59 PM
Subject: 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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