Re: Anyone know how to get *bigger* fonts on the console?
Wade Richards, 2002-Sep-06 14:43 -0700:
> Hi,
>
> I've found a lot of ways to increase the console resolution so that I
> can more and smaller characters on the screen.
>
> However, I want to do the opposite. I've got my 80x30 VGA console output
> hooked up to a TV screen, and thanks to the low resolution of a TV,
> the result is unreadable. I'd like to increase the font size so that
> there's only 40x20 characters on the screen, and hopefully that will be
> much easier to read.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions? I'm using a framebuffer console, with a
> 2.4 kernel.
You may want to try SVGATextMode which provides some 40x and 50x
resolutions. However, I believe this will clash with any Framebuffer
you may be running.
jc
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Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer
Diggin' Debian Admin and User
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