Having had a long look at the documentation for this package, I've opted
to move it down my priority list. It looks neat but scary. I've
decided to take the cowardly way out [ :( ] and just live with the vga prompt
form LILO as a middle ground. Thanks, David, for your interest, in any
case.
Re
David,
Well, had one pass through most of the documentation. Gulp! ;) I
always go into half time with software that directly writes to hardware,
with all the adventure that may cause! But, onward! May be a couple of
days, but I'll report back.
FWIW, what also works is setting a per kernel s
On 12/22/00, 05:58:25AM -0500, fred smith wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 10:42:44PM -0500, John P. Verel wrote:
> > I'd like to change the font, characters per line and lines on the screen
> > when in console mode. I gather that setting the TERM environment
> > variable may be the way to do thi
Dave,
Thanks for this tip. I find that SVGATextMode is part of the RH7 full
install, so I have it on my machine :) The man pages are printing as I
type. I shall report back on my results.
Thanks ever so much for this lead.
Regards,
John
On 12/22/00, 03:50:23PM -0600, David Talkington wrote:
John, I think what you want is a package called SVGATextMode. I seem
to recall that its configuration wasn't exactly straightforward, but
its purpose is to take advantage of the capabilities of your video
card while in console mode, which sounds like what you're looking for.
I'd be interested i
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 10:42:44PM -0500, John P. Verel wrote:
> I'd like to change the font, characters per line and lines on the screen
> when in console mode. I gather that setting the TERM environment
> variable may be the way to do this. However, finding an alternative
No, I don't think so
On 22-Dec-2000 John P. Verel opined:
> On 12/22/00, 01:18:02AM -0600, Uncle Meat wrote:
>>
>> On 22-Dec-2000 John P. Verel opined:
>> > I'd like to change the font, characters per line and lines on the
>> > screen
>> > when in console mode. I gather that setting the TERM environment
>> > variab
On 12/22/00, 01:18:02AM -0600, Uncle Meat wrote:
>
> On 22-Dec-2000 John P. Verel opined:
> > I'd like to change the font, characters per line and lines on the
> > screen
> > when in console mode. I gather that setting the TERM environment
> > variable may be the way to do this. However, findin
On 22-Dec-2000 John P. Verel opined:
> I'd like to change the font, characters per line and lines on the
> screen
> when in console mode. I gather that setting the TERM environment
> variable may be the way to do this. However, finding an alternative
> description for my machine is proving daun
I'd like to change the font, characters per line and lines on the screen
when in console mode. I gather that setting the TERM environment
variable may be the way to do this. However, finding an alternative
description for my machine is proving daunting. My hardware is a Dell
Precision Workstati
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