On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Brett wrote:
> I use SuSE 8.0 and mostly use the KDE UI but find myself more and more
> using the standard text console either by doing a Alt+f2 or not even
> starting X at all.
> What I would like to do is change the color of the font and maybe the font
> it self.
> Is this a hard thing? If it involves setting up a fonts server or such,
> maybe I'll make do with what I have. It's not all that bad really. My
> goal was to change the font color to green and maybe find a font that I
> could get a few more words on a line.
> Thanks,
>
> Brett
> ___
> Linux linuxDBA 2.4.18-4GB #1 Wed Mar 27 13:57:05 UTC 2002 i686 unknown
> 12:30pm up 7 days, 14:17, 3 users, load average: 2.01, 1.99, 1.92
I don't know about colours (I quite like white on black), but the way
to change the font is to use either `consolechars' or `setfont',
depending on whether your distro ships console-tools or kbdutils.
Unfortunately, all this will really do is change which characters map to
which ascii codes, for example for me � maps as a euro symbol using
latin-{0,9}. Your distro probably sets a font already, in Mandrake they
use `setsysfont' which is a wrapper script.
Now, if you want more characters on a line you either need SVGATextMode
(never tried it, it's just an application) or a framebuffer. I use
framebuffers, you have to recompile the kernel for your particular
video card (or vesa will I suppose work) and then give the right
options to grub or lilo. For lilo I use
video=matrox:vesa:0x117 # matrox, e.g. mystigue, 1024x768
video=atyfb:1024x768 # old ati card, 1024x768
I've also used the following from an old Mandrake install -
video=vga:791 # vesa, I think this was maybe 800x600
This is documented to varying degrees in the kernel source.
Ken
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