Re: Console mode (80x25) in Debian Woody

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

dziekan (<dziekan74@poczta.onet.pl>) wrote:

> How to get size (COLSxROWS) 80x25 in console mode?
> 
> I set in lilo.conf vga=normal (it is 80x25 console mode), but its not
> working. During loading debian (woody, kernel 2.4.18) console mode are 
> changed to 80x30
> Here is log:
> ...
>>vga16fb: initializing
>>vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
>>Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
> ...

Try append="vga16:off" in your lilo.conf.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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