On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 02:56 -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: > >> 4) resizeconsole promises to adjust the console, but complains it does not >> have the proper 'videomode' file for 80x25. There is no hint of where >> the acceptable 'videomode' files might be. Using the -lines switch, it >> will reduce the number of lines to 25, but won't change the columns and >> won't get out of the hidious teeny tiny default console font. It just writes >> the first 25 lines to each screen at the same height, leaving half the >> screen blank. >> >> 5) attempting to set vga=<anything> in grub leads to a blank screen and an >> unresponsive keyboard. > ---- > Perhaps you have some setup that defeats automatic detection of the > available modes. > > are you following this? > > http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt This seems to be about graphics modes, not text modes. > > you might need to convert those to decimal, sort of as conveyed here... > > http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/linux/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Vesafb-5.html Ditto. > > but in general, you should just let the software detect as this tends to > be a bit heavy handed. > > I'm not sure what this has to do with Fedora though. This is probably > going to happen with any recent version of xorg/linux. I'm asking about setting text modes in a virtual console (aka virtual terminal) - not about running a terminal in xorg. Xorg is not an operating system -- it has nothing to do with what I am trying to do. I want to run command line applications at the command line, not in an Xterm. I want to be in text mode: 80 columns, 25 lines, 16 color, using a VGA font -- I don't want something drawing a picture sort of like that in graphics mode. Vesa is for sort of drawing a picture of what it thinks text mode might look like -- if text mode was tiny, illegible, and all et up with unicode. Vesa is not VGA. There has never been a graphics font that can put 4000 characters (80x25) on a screen legibly, which is what VGA can do. > > Craig > > > -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
