I don't know about the i18n font having anything to do with it--but I've only ever used iso and utf8. I have, however, had several settings in lilo.conf over the years. Currently, I have a line that says: vga=832 which gives me 64 rows and 175 columns. Sweet. There was a discussion of this on the Speakup list just a week or so hence. Someone posted a set of possible values. You might want to check the Speakup archives. Dave Mielke writes: > From: Dave Mielke <dave@xxxxxxxxx> > > [quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on August 1, 2003, at 10:06] > > >If I do this from a boot floppy, the dmesg messages show that the > >console starts out at 50 lines, but before the login prompt it gets > >changed back to 25. > > My guess is that it's related to the SYSFONT= speficiation in > /etc/sysconfig/i18n. That font is probably too big for a 50-line screen. Try > changing it to a font which is small enough. > > -- > Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | I believe that the Bible is the > Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | Word of God. Please contact me > EMail: dave@xxxxxxxxx | Canada K2A 1H7 | if you're concerned about Hell. > http://familyradio.com/ | http://mielke.cc/bible/ > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@xxxxxxx Phone: (202) 408-8175 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list