On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:48 AM, stan <gryt2@xxxxx> wrote:
As Tom said, you can't. His suggestion of setting the font will work,
> How do I get my non-graphic console (I think its a getty terminal) in
> my display adapter's mode 0?
sort of, especially if you make the font bold.
I asked this same question, 'How is it possible to set the console
resolution to a different value than the GUI?', and a developer told me
that it is not possible using nouveau (not sure about proprietary).
What I did is run with the old xv driver for nvidia, and add nomodeset
vga=0x317 on the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst. 0x317 is
110x40, I think 0x315 is 80x25.
Your video hardware might not be nvidia, but this should give you some
ideas to try.
In the GUI Ctl-Alt-Bksp will flip through the available resolutions
(at least it does here).
Mine is an Intel motherboard with integrated Intel graphics chipset.
vga=315 did not work...I tried that before vga=ask. What I am looking for is at least some way to reduce the resolution of the console (even if I have to reduce the resolution of the gui also)...maybe with a script run everytime going into console to reduce the resolution and another to increase the resolution back at the time of going into gui.
Problem at the moment is getting 80x25 mode....regardless of what happens to the gui. After the kernel is booted, screen simply does not go into low resolution and the gui does not have options for that low resolution.
I am looking for a way to run several legacy applications, recompiled on Linux and am willing to accept compromises.
Thanks.
Sanjay.
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