>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 believe the original CGA displays could do 200 scan lines, therefore to get 25 lines you had 8 scan lines to each character. EGA bumped this up to 350 scan lines, and VGA further to 400. Thus for EGA and VGA you use fonts with 14 or 16 scan lines to retain 25 lines. I'd say you are setting to a font that uses 16 scan lines (just from the last two digits of the name), and thus the most your VGA card can do is 25 lines. This is why when you switch to this font you go back to 25 lines. You need to use a font with less scan lines, say 8. That way you will be able to have 400/8 = 50 lines. There's the theory, how you actually change the font is left as an exercise because I have no idea. Maybe just turn off switching the font with some well placed #'s (James who previously replied to you might be able to help more)? -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. ********************************************************************** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
