On Saturday 05 February 2011 17:10:15 Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 09:40:41PM +0000, Mick wrote > > > Leave KMS enabled and add the parameter: > > video=1024x768 (or whatever suits your screen and taste) > > > > to your kernel line. You shouldn't need vesafb, uvesa or any other > > drivers to achieve this. > > Thanks very much. That works. I feel stupid. I always used "VGA=6" > to get the equivalant of "video=640x480". When "VGA=6" stopped working, > it didn't occur to me to try "video=640x480", because I assumed they > were identical. > > Anyhow, I'm typing this in a text console. /etc/conf.d/consolefont is > > CONSOLEFONT="lat1-10" > > Combine that with 640x480 video, and that gives me an 80x48 textmode > display. Because I'm using a 10-pixel-high font, the text is a lot > nicer than VGA 80x50 that you may have seen on Windows. That mode uses > an 8-pixel-high font on a 640x400 display for 50 rows. Doing an "ll" > finds more lat1-?? fonts in /usr/share/consolefonts, which give the > following possible text displays for "video=640x480"... > > lat1-08 ==> 80x60 > lat1-10 ==> 80x48 > lat1-12 ==> 80x40 > lat1-14 ==> 80x34 > lat1-16 ==> 80x30 > > As they say in the infomercials "but wait, there's more". My monitor > supports 1280x720 and 1280x1024 modes. Using "screen" I should be able > to do splitscreen mode with 2 sessions side-by-each. Or vim in one > screen with :vsplit splitting into two subscreens. Possibilities > include two side-by-each sessions of... > > Font 1280x720 1280x1024 > > lat1-08 ==> 80x90 80x128 > lat1-10 ==> 80x72 80x102 > lat1-12 ==> 80x60 80x85 > lat1-14 ==> 80x51 80x73 > lat1-16 ==> 80x45 80x64 > > I feel like a kid with a shiney new toy. And when prices for 30 inch > monitors come down, I could go nuts with *THREE* 80-column screens > side-by-each in 1920x1200 or 1920x1080 video mode.
Glad you cracked this one. :-) -- Regards, Mick
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