Re: Bootup console screen size problem

[Gertjan Vinkesteijn <vinksoft xs4all nl>]

Michael Ben-Gershon wrote:
> Scott Stevens wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 03:14, Michael Ben-Gershon wrote:
> >
> > > In my previous version of Linux (RH 7.2) I had a kernel
> > > parameter vga=1 to set an 80x50 console screen for bootup. I have
> > > done this with GRUB/Fedora, but this is reset to 80x25 when
> > > the default font is set. I tried commenting out the lines
> > > which do this in rc.sysinit but the size gets changed again
> > > later on.
> > >
> > > Surely there must be a way of doing this in a manner which does
> > > not require hacking deep into the startup system?
> > >
> > > Any help would be MUCH appreciated.
> > >
> > > Michael Ben-Gershon
> > > mybg netvision net il
> >
> >
> > Try putting something like:
> >
> >     SYSFONT="LatArCyrHeb-08"
> >
> > in the file /etc/sysconfig/i18n.
>
>
> The file already has:
>
> SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
>
> Is that the problem? Should I be changing that to what you gave above?
>
> Michael Ben-Gershon
> mybg netvision net il

I always set vga=791, why? G.d knows

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