On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:08, Andy George wrote: > Further to the Ansi colours/size discussion, the solution you present > below, will change the console, in a similar vein to Slackware, yes? I have not run Slackware, so I don't know. The Framebuffer-HOWTO tells you how to change the virtual terminal font at boot up. Don't confuse this with some of the other discussions in the thread which reference the font settings in an X-terminal. You will, of course, need to have the frame buffer code either compiled into the kernel or loaded as a module.
> 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... The Frame-Buffer does not change the colour by itself, you'll have to parse the line and insert the ANSI colour change escape sequences yourself. > -----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
