M Harris wrote: > On Monday 16 April 2007 10:24, Jonathan Arnold wrote: >> How do I change the video mode in my text consoles from the normal 80x25 to >> something more usable, like say 50x132? > If you mean your Alt-F1 -- F6 black screen consoles, then you can do > that > in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Try vga=0x317 as in the following: > > kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 vga=0x317 selinux=0 resume=/dev/sda3 > splash=silent showopts
Yes, I mean my Alt-F? virtual terminals. So I can only change this at boot time? No way to change it once I'm running? -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
