brltty and bigger screens then 25x80

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On 21 Sep 2001, Mario Lang wrote:

 > Hello.
 > 
 > Just as a not, if you are using Linux kernel 2.4 and have the frame buffer
 > driver activated, you can use the command-line tool fbset to even trick Linux
 > into a larger console than your monitor can handle. I use a command like the following if my monitor is turned off
 > and no sighted co-worker needs to see what I am doing:
 > 
 > fbset -a -xres 640 -yres 1280
nice, but what did you compile into the kernel apart form framebuffer
support itself?
I eman, did you included in lowlevel drivers form the framebuffer
menu-selection?


 > this gives me 80x80 screen with a standard 16x8 font loaded.
 > 
 > Andor Demarteau wrote:
 > 
 > > > on my new laptop I can get a bigger virual console (the standart size is
 > > > smaller then the physical screen).
 > > > Now I was wondering if brltty can handel the bigger screen.
 > 
 > Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> replied:
 > 
 > > BRLTTY can handle any screen size.  I personally always use 80x50.
 > 
 > -- 
 > CYa,
 >    Mario <mlang@delysid.org>
 > Homepage(s): http://delysid.org | http://piss.at/
 > 
 > I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes...
 >              -- Larry Wall in  <8538@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
 > 
 > 
 > 
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