On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 05:14:45AM -0700, Anton Graham wrote:
-> Submitted 29-May-00 by Charles Curley:
->
-> | You can do this without Twin. Emacs will run a shell in a windows (M-x
-> | shell). And you can switch virtual consoles using <ALT>Fx where x is the
-> | console number you want. I believe you can specify the text resulution of
-> | the console you want to Linux at boot time, but I don't know how. Tomsrtbt
-> | even lets you have an optional menu to select a resulution.
->
-> For simple text cols x rows selection in standard resolutions, passing
-> vga=ask to the kernel at boot time will get you a menu of standard
-> text modes (up to 132x60 which is pretty unreadable on a small
-> screen in standard text modes). Then replace the vga=ask with
-> vga=mode_number.
Cool! I git this working on my test bed machine in minutes. Thanks
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7
label=linux
root=/dev/hda8
read-only
vga=7
-> A better solution is to use an fb kernel and select
-> an appropriate graphics mode to use for text. (I use a 1024x768 24bpp
-> text mode.) The mode numbers for the fb kernel can be found in
-> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
->
-> If you need more lines on the screen than the default 8x16 font gives
-> you (48 at 1024x768), you can set a different font in your
-> /etc/sysconfig/i18n file. I use an 8x12 font which gives me a very
-> readable 128x64. If you are a masochist, you could run an 8x8 font
-> which gives an insane 96 lines on the screen but it is pretty squashed.
Thanks, but I'll stay away from this for now. The standard video
resolutions look like thy'll do the job, and not all the kernels I support
have frame buffering.
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