On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Sanjay Arora <sanjay.k.arora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Min > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:48 AM, stan <gryt2@xxxxx> wrote: >> >> > How do I get my non-graphic console (I think its a getty terminal) in >> > my display adapter's mode 0? >> >> As Tom said, you can't. His suggestion of setting the font will work, >> 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. > adding nomodeset to the kernel params on my laptop gives me 80x25 (and the GUI appropriately ugly) on F15 -- 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
