On Monday 16 April 2007 10:14, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
> Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > On Monday 16 April 2007 09:50, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
> >> 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?
> >
> > No, that's not true, you can change it on-the-fly.
> >
> > % man fbset
> >
> > (Use with care--you are, of necessity, modifying video hardware
> > parameters.)
>
> I get a :
>
> open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
>
> when I try to use fbset. I don't see any 'fb' device or folder in my
> /dev folder.
I don't know if this is relevant, but according to the "--help" output:
% fbset --help
...
Frame buffer special device nodes:
-fb <device> : processed frame buffer device
(default is /dev/fb0; /dev/fb/0 when using devfs)
...
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> Jonathan Arnold
Randall Schulz
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