On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 02:50:15PM EDT, Angel Martin Alganza wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 02:22:14PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > > > If you use grub it's usually only a matter of typing "e" to edit your > > boot command on the fly and adding vga=xxx to it .. where xxx is > > something like 791 or 794 .. don't exactly remember since I use the > > 791 gives me something like 132x48 (not even 50), and the first line I > can see only the bottom half of it. Is there a way to increase that > or is it something fixed depending on the hardware? This laptop here > has: "VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY"
What's your laptop's native resolution? Or more accurately, I should say dimension (in pixels) .. mine is 1400x1050. Note, that the lines/column dimensions would be different if you changed your font size. But since this has little relevance to the screen-user mailing list, the proper place to get help with such issues is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you spend a lot of time in vim for instance, 256 colors is worth a > > look. Makes it a bit easier on the eyes .. > > Vim, Mutt, Tin, Elinks, W3m, Irssi. .. slrn > > Good luck with it. > > Thanks a lot for all the good information and the good whishes. :-) > > Ángel _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
