On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 09:45:36AM +1030, Thomas Cook wrote: > Mike McCue wrote: > > > > A while back I saw a friend's ZipSlack install, and the font he had on the > > command line was a little smaller than that of my command line on my debian > > install. Is there a way to change the font of the command line in Debian ? > > (Can't fit much on this 14" screen... <G>) > > I suspect that what you are after is the LILO option 'vga=extended'. > This will give you more console real-estate, although I seem to remember > reading somewhere that it is bad in some situations. Try it as a > boot-time option first, before you put it in lilo.conf!
vga=ask will list the available video modes (you could just hit shift and enter "vga=ask" as a kernel parameter when you boot). > If anybody knows how this is done in grub I would be grateful. Same way ... provide vga=xx (or vga=ask) as an argument following the kernel definition. My GRUB menu.lst says # For booting Linux title Debian GNU/Linux (kernel 2.4.17) root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17 root=/dev/hda6 vga=791 Note that the vga argument provided is for the VESA framebuffer, yet another way to increases the usable real estate on your screen. i have a laptop so this is important to me :) Framebuffer support must be compiled into the kernel, or available as a module from an initrd. Note that vga=ask doesn't list possible framebuffer modes, even if you have framebuffer support. I figured out vga=791 from a web page describing how to get the framebuffer working for my laptop. HTH, -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton
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