Further to the Ansi colours/size discussion, the solution you present below, will change the console, in a similar vein to Slackware, yes? I'm looking at the console output of my IPTables Firewall, and honestly, if I can pretty that up some, it'd be almost readable. Add some colours to differentiate information, reduce the font size, to make each line, one line, instead of multiples, ad infinitum...
-----Original Message----- From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 11 August 2004 10:04 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Screens, colours, and text sizes. On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:22, Andy George wrote: > I can only assume that Linux can do a similar if not flasher trick. �How, > or what MAN page would best show me how? http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html This describes in excruciating detail how to set up the hardware character generator in the video card. There is also the possibility of setting a screen font by software. man setfont describes this. hth. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.516 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 1/09/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.516 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 1/09/2003
