The Wanderer wrote: > Maybe it's got something to do with the way I install Debian? I don't > quite follow the normal installer defaults 100%; I do partitioning > manually, and I disable all tasks except for the base system, then > install everything I need (including X) separately afterwards. I think that is perfectly valid and I do much the same thing here. But I think that must be the reason at some level. Probably due to what we install we have slightly different packages installed. I am sure that one of those is what is triggering the console resizing. Or it is also possible that the hardware differences is the source of the difference. Your graphics display hardware may decide to use the 25 line terminal while mine chooses a 48 line terminal. I searched the web a little and found references saying that the 640x480 8-bit mode produces a console of 80x25. If you were curious enough to try a few reboots of your system you could add the vga=PARAM option to the kernel boot line and force various resolutions. If you are using grub then this is easy by changing the boot line at boot time. Here are some possibilities. 771 - 800x600, 8-bit 773 - 1024x768, 8-bit 775 - 1280x1024, 8-bit 788 - 800x600, 16-bit 789 - 800x600, 24-bit 791 - 1024x768, 16-bit 792 - 1024x768, 24-bit 794 - 1280x1024, 16-bit 795 - 1280x1024, 24-bit Or perhaps better would be to set vga=ask which will prompt with a selection. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/svga.txt Bob
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