The Wanderer wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I must have a higher resolution monitor than you. (shrug) I have 44 > > lines of console boot messages. The monitor is an older 1280x1024 > > monitor. The default console size is 48 lines and annoyingly doesn't > > use the bottom third of the screen. If it did use the full screen > > it would probably have 70 plus lines available. > > I have a 2560x1600 monitor, and the console is full-screen, but still > only 25 lines; the text is just displayed at a larger scale, that's all. > I thought that sort of scaling was fairly standard, actually.
Hmm... I am sure you are happy with your configuration. But of course it leads me to wonder why you get 25x80. Mind if I ask about it? I haven't seen that in a long time. I would not be unhappy with it. I don't like that part way through the boot the screen flickers and jumps into a bit mapped display mode in order to support UTF-8 characters. Does 'cat /proc/cmdline' show any vga=0F00 or other setting? https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/svga.txt Is GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480 set in /etc/default/grub? I would think that something along those lines would be needed in order to instruct the Linux kernel to continue with the standard 25x80 console. Or perhaps you have avoided installing console-setup or some such that is doing the switch on other systems. That might be an advantage! :-) Bob
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