-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi all, thanks to everyone for the suggestions! I had somheow forgotten about the vga parameter, it looks like that is what is going to be the easiest to implement on this CLFS build. At least for testing/playing around with console sizes that is. On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 06:01:57AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 04:29:46AM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > > I have added vga=773 to my kernel line in the grub menu.lst file, > > which gives me 48 lines of 128 columns. > > I also run Arch Linux like Chuck does but I'm using grub2 so I had to > do a similar thing but had to be sure the grub.cfg file included a > 'insmod vbe' before I could get any change in screen size; from there > I used vga=790 as a kernel parameter to achieve a 48 row by 128 column > screen. > > Another way you could get a large screen with grub2 is alter the > values in /etc/default/grub to use gfxterm as the terminal output but > then grub seemed a lot slower but I got a screen size of 96 rows by > 256 columns! > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > - -- Igor -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBTNBBUqe2pgKIdGq4AQrRwBAApDGpj71PGPrTWZcuw6qZYQYLfmXAsesx PJ1ytUmGqb/cw0laidEGOdgkANoPYGOd2mNCZsxgA8L8SmWe26FWKdMxwe97/7sN rv+NAHa3V0WaM6o4UVz6kVA+TnOPhhdjhwV92qA/jvqywusZnsYzCL1P1AlOlrKh 0Yf2iTl7qsfy0uuKr6TFdxbZs3jdLKGvP9Ty6S+VGK+OtiYOAHGrUUMY+ukW8okA BoLKeyClMIeeqgnRv5QICxFMCRLqFb7kuL/BtK4JmmFdSBZ7cRFOdo+5LJ966O4L 4cSTaSzK6T1nY8u7eT+6IZuvmf2GkAjRv8wlw03l64vaWLt2BHxUMTZdZCcV8ly1 7AjXgl0uKQxq2CVjrXW8IZTuH5PLjmNgx5pDdmP62JuJek2wf2468lAEbOw24TdB uwVDKIgy586WvDU8ALfzfLDpeobYNqqfGC+lkTQkQmx/ZGNEux0qtlmuhYoBBLaz K35in4tN5JAp5D+ebcpZivOHIayLKQ8HgzBOHMp9wzLxk9FhnbA5r7PMSOkkI+7q oQEXTqhBzysN5pgTmGXCECwBVJTM82SW4HLbiiLRQSVgYCYUcWWNS6xCinhrj0jj 0QG5J2Eyl8kipkg40G0tvdjAgDAWztbET4QSymIP4SeYi4Xj2W8aeS/tgzMFtYUu 66d5zlzSEvo= =IjPy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
