hello, If you can tell me how to check the dimentions of the terminal with speakup I'll check mumy configuration of grub2 and see if I can help. I seem to remember editing /etc/defaults.grub There should be al ine in the file about setting resolution. Alonzo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Garry Turkington" <garrys.lists@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 2:50 PM Subject: Re: Setting text console dimensions via Grub2 > Hi, > > Thanks to Janina and Jason for their help on this. It's still > defeating me however. > > With grub2 the vga= parameter isn't supported anymore so simply > setting vga=xyz isn't an option anymore. Googling gives a bunch of > info re setting gfxmode parameters and ensuring a few modules are > loaded but I'm still ending up with a 80x25 console. > > So let me ask the question another way. If anyone is running a newer > distro what did they need do to ensure a console with greater than a > 80x25 layout? > > Thanks, > Garry > > On 5/18/10, Jason White <jason at jasonjgw.net> wrote: >> You can also use the fbset command, which under Debian can be found in >> the fbset package. >> >> It is installed, but I haven't tried it, since the default resolution of >> my framebuffer consoles does what I want: it maximizes the number of >> characters on the display. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
