Janina said: > I don't know about the i18n font having anything to do with it--but I've > only ever used iso and utf8. I'm not sure what that means. Unless I'm missing something, ISO in this context refers to definitions of code pages (which letter is represented by which hex value) and utf8 has to do with mappings between multi-byte and single-byte characters. Font has to do with how characters are actually painted on the screen. > I have, however, had several settings in > lilo.conf over the years. Currently, I have a line that says: > > vga=832 A setting like this is, as I understand it, dependent on your specific hardware. When I did a vga=ask and entered scan at the prompt, 50x132 was about the biggest screen choice I was given. I chose the 12932 value because it's relatively portable, though not completely so, since it's based on actual row-by-column numbers instead of the intricacies of a particular video card. It's risky to take hardware-dependent numbers from someone else and put them on a different machine. Oralux/Knoppix has a value of vga=791 which worked on my machine using Oralux (Debian). I plugged this into Red Hat 9. I was trying to figure out the results when I happened to turn on the monitor and, using my hearing aids, found that the pitch of the magnetic field was the highest I've ever heard. I grabbed the Optacon to see how much I had fried but fortunately the screen had apparently muted on its own because it was blank as far as I could tell. But it sure did scare the tar out of me. Lee _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list