On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Reinhard Karcher <karcher1234@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 14.03.2011 20:15, schrieb Daren Krive: >> >> However all these newer distros change the resolution of the console >> (tty1 – tty6) to something much higher than the standard 80x25 and >> even change the font. Apparently most people *like* this but I prefer >> to have a standard console. If I need more space for a Linux session >> I will use a full-screen xterm. >> >> The real problem is however that it seems that these non-standard >> resolutions cause problems for DOSEMU when I use the “-s” option. >> >> If I run DOSEMU with the s- option I get some blue text very briefly >> on the screen and then my whole screen goes blank. The only way I can >> get things back to normal (that I know of)is to hard-boot my machine >> (ouch). Running DOSEMU without the –s options works fine but gives >> weird output because the screen is not in 80x25 mode. >> >> So my question is twofold. How can I prevent Mint (or any other >> distro) from doing something silly with the screen resolution? Also >> can we get DOSEMU to error out with some nice error message or >> something when this happens? Or is there some other solution? > > You could use dos in X and switch to full screen using ctrl-alt-f. > > To configure tty1-tty6 to 80x25, that depends on your graphic card and is a > linux question you should ask someone, who knows your distribution. > > Reinhard Hi Reinhard, I do use the Ctrl+Alt+F feature most of the time. However the fonts do not look nearly as good as they do on a native console. It works but it isn't the ideal scenario. I was hoping there would be a larger number of people looking for this (standard resolution on the console) among DOSEMU users. Daren -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
