Ian, Thanks, I needed to run lilo after editing /etc/lilo.conf, I am a goose after all. It was simple and now my vga=enhanced works... sort of. I now get the behaviour I described on my Mandrake system, i.e. it starts booting in 50 line mode, then part way through the booting, it resets to 25 lines and there it stays.
Further investigation reveals that this restting appears to occur with the message "Setting default font lat0-sun16". This appears to be called from an initialisation script "keytable" which in turn eventually calls "consolechars". This seems to set the console font and do what I want, but in the initialisation script, it is using a variable to get the font name. Now I am stuck trying to find where this variable is set... I looked at the frame buffer stuff and it appeared to allow you to put the console into a graphics mode rather than text mode, which is not quite what I want at this stage. That, my lack of knowledge/confidence and some frustration were the main reasons behind my rather declamatory statement about not wanting to compile the kernel (yet anyway). So, in summary, I am now looking for the place in the initialisation scripts where the system font variable is set. TIA. Brendan Wienand Ian wrote: >>Before you rush in and answer, be aware that I have (to some extent >>RTFM) and have tried adding a line to my lilo.conf (vga=ask, >>vga=enhanced) neither of which did anything. > > > Did you re-run lilo after putting these extra commands in (e.g. from the > command prompt as root type 'lilo')? vga=ask should do it for you. > > >>Some documentation seems to imply that I have to recompile the kernel to >>enable this mode. > > > Maybe that was taking about frame buffer support, which is a little > different to changing the vga mode (but worth investing time in setting up > -- i find it much easier on the eyes, and I can run my console at > 1200x1024). > > >>I do *not* want to recompile the kernel and don't believe >>that it should be necessary to do such a simple thing. > > > ok, thanks for your opinion :) > > -i > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.wienand.org > > ********************************************************************** > CAUTION: This message may contain confidential information intended only for the use >of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, >any use or disclosure of this message is prohibited. If you received this message in >error please notify Mail Administrators immediately. You must obtain all necessary >intellectual property clearances before doing anything other than displaying this >message on your monitor. There is no intellectual property licence. Any views >expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily >reflect the views of Woolworths Ltd. > ********************************************************************** > > -- Brendan Brendan Dacre Ph: 9690 1949 Fax: 9690 1949 Mob: 0402 149 422 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
