Re: why does debian undo boot text size
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 10:16:40PM -0700, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
> I'm using a boot time text setting (using the vga= setting in lilo)
> which sets up a 80x50 screen size. Some time during the boot process
> this gets undone and I'm back to 80x25.
>
> This start happening a while back.
i guess you don't use framebuffer and have console-tools installed, right?
> Anyone know why this might be happening ?
your screenfont does set-back the resolution.
> Of course, advice on how to fix it is also useful :-)
first, try to load an alternate screenfont manually. do this with
'consolechars' and the fonts stored in /usr/share/consolefonts.
consolechars (8) - load EGA/VGA console screen font, screen-font map, and/or application-charset map.
then, take a look in /etc/console-tools/config and the SCREEN_FONT option.
modify this option to setup a higher resolution (smaller character size,
the number behinde the dash.)
restart console-tools.
HTH
- regards, turrican
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