Re: the look of the bash
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:16:31PM -0700, mike@kevino.org wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:40:28 +0100
> Kay Smarczewski <kay@wh12.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 09:26:56PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> > > On 10/28/06 17:46, Kay Smarczewski wrote:
> > > > Hey,
> > > >
> > > > I have just a little question.
> > > >
> > > > How can I change the look of my cursor in my bash running with
> > > > vesa fb? I use a laptop and if there is much light I will have
> > > > to search my cursor. So I would prefer some kind of rectangle
> > > > instead of the line.
> > > >
> > > > And where can I make my writing smaller?
> > > >
> > > > If you had a good manual it would be also ok to send just the
> > > > link. I have not just found anything fitting.
> > > >
> > > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > fbset or console-tools might help.
> >
> > Thank you for your answer!
> >
> > But I don't really get it working. If have a resolution 1024x768
> > althrough WXGA (1280x800) were possible.
> > I reached this solution on my console (bash) by adding vga=0x316
> > to my grub config file menu.lst. I also tried 0x307 but it don't
> > works: "unknown resolution".
> > Playing with fbset has no effect. Console-tools seem to be useless
> > for me because they should not influence my fb, should they?
> >
> > What can I do?
> >
> > Kay
>
> Try vga=790 instead of vga=0x316 and see if that works.
>
> Color depth | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
> -----------------+-------------------------------------
> 256 (8bit)| 769 771 773 775
> 32000 (15bit)| 784 787 790 793
> 65000 (16bit)| 785 788 791 794
> 16.7 Mill.(24bit)| 786 789 792 795
>
> According to
> /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.8/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt.gz
> Lilo can't handle hex so perhaps Grub is unable to also.
No. hexadezimal work. But I've tried the value 793, too. But I got the
error message for an invalid resolution. Thats ok because I just have
WXGA (1280x800).
But is there a way to set the resolution to WXGA or just make the font
smaller?
> As far as the cursor (which I was wondering if I could change my
> self).
> /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.8/Documentation/VGA-softcursor.txt.gz
>
> I tried the examples (underline,block and solid block) in one of my
> consoles and they worked here.
I just don't have this documentation :(
Thank you for your ideas!
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