Re: framebuffer sizing again
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 04:57:27PM -0500, R Ransbottom wrote:
> I am trying to set the console screen size to 25 x 80
> on Debian 3.0. I really don't care whether I am using
> the framebuffer device or not.
>
> I would like an easy generic solution. One that will work
> on various machines. Preferably without kernel compiles
> and without knowledge of what video card is installed.
Hm, not really ...
>
>
> I have dug through the debian.user archives, /etc/init.d
> and friends, /usr/src/linux/Doc*, the video drivers, and
> the boot prompt howto.
Here, from the kernel's Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt:
So the table for the Kernel mode numbers are:
| 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
----+-------------------------------------
256 | 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x307
32k | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x319
64k | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x31A
16M | 0x312 0x315 0x318 0x31B
Use those with your boot-loader and framebuffers on. I don't know
what happens if you don't have framebuffers enabled. But isn't 80x25
(or did you really mean 25x80?!) the default anyway? Besides,
other drivers (may) have different options.
andrej
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