Yike I forgot to save grub.conf setting for text mode settings

[Harry Putnam]

"Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage at peaknet.net> writes:

> Harry,
>
> Are you looking for the VESA modes? There is a hex listing in
> /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc/2.4.xxx/fb/vesafb.txt. If you used vga=0x318,
> you got a 1024x768x16M graphic screen, whose smaller characters show you
> a lot more than the standard 80x25 character mode screen:

Yup, I knew I'd seen something like that before..  Thanks Doc
that was a full and usefull answer....