-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Well, to bring up this topic discussed heavily last month, I still have an issue. I'm currently using 'vga = extended' and I still get 25x80 screens. During this past month, I got a new machine with new video and discovered something. Durring the loading of the kernel and its drivers, I noticed I had 50 lines. But after the shell completed and terminal options were set I was back to 25 lines. To get the additional screen capacity, do I also have to change something in my terminal options? I'm running Slackware 10.0 with the default implimentation of terminfo and my console type is linux on all my tty lines. I thought it strange that I had greeater capacity while loading but then it turns off after finishing the startup. Any ideas? On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 01:37:08PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Well, I think it may not have to do with framebuffers per se. > > in the kernel configuration items, here's something you might want > to know: > under "Device drivers" "Console display driver support" "VGA text console" > "video mode selection support" the help says: > This enables support for text mode selection on kernel startup. If > you want to take advantage of some high-resolution text mode your > card's BIOS offers, but the traditional Linux utilities like > SVGATextMode don't, you can say Y here and set the mode using the > "vga=" option from your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) or set > "vga=ask" which brings up a video mode menu on kernel startup. (Try > "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot loader about > how to pass options to the kernel.) > Read the file <file:Documentation/svga.txt> for more information > about the Video mode selection support. > Hth. > > > -- > Cheryl > > "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > - -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://ld.net/?holmesgrown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBkkkFWSjv55S0LfERAsXUAJ9pFCi8FA/g/OkiW15u2rAic1uUUQCfc9Ga 0ZiQ7pRyFWgTuHSZgbmva8w= =cFzw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
