On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 10:01:44AM -0700, paul@mackinney.net wrote: > Thomas Elsen declaimed: > > db@epsi.net wrote: > > > > >Thanks in advance to anyone who can help. I am trying to change my > > >font display in my initial logon screen run level 3. (no x windows) > > > > > >I am trying to make the displayed fonts smaller to increase screen > > >realestate in my non x terminal. SOrry if my wording is a little off, > > >I am not sure the terminalogy to use here to get my point accross. > > > > You can edit /etc/console-tools/config and outcomment and change the > > SCREEN_FONT to something like cp850-8x8 > > > > Thomas Elsen > > > > You can also enter a kernel argument like 'vga=ask', which will then > prompt you for resolution, when prompted try a number from 1 to 9. I > believe this is in the lilo or lilo.conf man pages. > > Using modconf to enable the vga frame buffer may give you nicer fonts & > more options, the docs are in the kernel source package. Better than framebuffer would be to use svgatextmode. Unfortunately this isn't always very good with support for newer video cards - you don't say what card you have, but if it's supported svgatextmode is definitely the way to go. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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