hi, That worked fine, just added vga=788 to lilo.conf.
Thank you. and its the same font as that of LFY cd's :-) I could not configure my win modem on debian, so 'am stuck up with caldera :-(. but i think its OK. :-) rgds Justin --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: justin joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sunday, March 14, 2004 11:00 am > Subject: [Mailinglist] please help. > > > hi all, > > > > I want to change the font size in the text mode of > > caldera Openlinux 3.1. The font size as of now is > the > > default one. The style I prefer is the one to > which > > you can pass the argument "vga=ask" at the lilo or > grub promopt and select any one from the list. > > > > the LFY boot disks boot. > > I have not tried the above disk. > > hope passing the argument vga=788 will do > > Other modes available > > # VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k > vga = 791 > # Normal VGA console > # vga = normal > # VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k > # vga=791 > # VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x32k > # vga=790 > # VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256 > # vga=773 > # VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x64k > # vga=788 > # VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x32k > # vga=787 > # VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x256 > # vga=771 > # VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x64k > # vga=785 > # VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x32k > # vga=784 > # VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x256 > # vga=769 > > > > Please send detailed intruction of how to do this, > > since I am not a Linux expert. > > not sure this may help you > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.html > > kernel documentation > (/usr/src/<kernelsource>/Documentation/fb) > > and > http://www.kumarayil.net/ > Mr.Dileep's site. > > > > With regards > M.Balakrishna Pillai > > PS > Use Debian GNU/Linux > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailinglist mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com
