On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Lars Eighner <topper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Craig White wrote: >> >> 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. > > 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. 1. The link provided by Craig isn't about xterms. 2. AFAIK, with KMS, there are only graphic modes available. -- 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
