"Craig Cooper" <shalstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> G'day all,
>
> My system boots into 1024x768 for all runlevels. I wish to use a lower
> resolution (640x480?) for the text console (and virtual consoles) so that my
> vesa extended console mouse support can select the entire screen (but that's
> not always necessary). My most important wish is that after entering a
> command as a user, which requires super user, after I switch users, I would
> like to a quick copy/paste/return combo to repeat the (sometimes lengthy)
> command. At the moment my console mouse is limited (?) to about 80x22. I
> would like this to be extended to 80x50 (which I think is VGA=extended in
> lilo.conf). I have changed this to VGA=ask and rebooted, and reinstalled
> bootloader etc. etc. but it has never asked me anything. Is there some
> simple Lilo trick that is eluding me?
You should probably post your lilo.conf so experienced people can see
at a glance any mistakes.
Not sure what you mean by:
> I have changed this to VGA=ask and rebooted, and reinstalled
> bootloader etc. etc.
If by reinstalled you mean you ran `/sbin/lilo' as root after editing
lilo.conf then that should do it. But so you understand. Any
changes in lilo.conf must be followed by running `sbin lilo.conf' so
next boot will know about it.
Here is an example lilo.conf that includes a vga line:
prompt
timeout=50
default=rh9
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
vga=5
install=/boot/boot.b
# message=/boot/message
lba32
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9
label=rh9
root=/dev/hdb5
read-only
append="hdc=ide-scsi hdd-ide-scsi"
other=/dev/hda1
optional
label=win
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