Re: Console font size...

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:13:57 -0600
"Henrik Schmiediche" <henrik stat tamu edu> insisted:

> 
>        Hello,
> I know how to change the console font size under LILO to something smaller
> (with 50 rows), but RH 7.2 changes the console font back to normal early
> inthe boot processs. How do I keep or change the console font after boot up
> or change it interactively during a session?

Since it appears you aren't using the framebuffer, do this as root:

mv /sbin/setsysfont /sbin/setsysfont.bak
echo "#!/bin/bash" > /sbin/setsysfont
chmod +x /sbin/setsysfont

Now set the vga settings how you'd like them, reboot and enjoy.

There might be a corrector way of doing it. But like everything in
linux, multiple ways exist to skin a cat.

All of this nice little trick will be lost whenever you upgrade or reinstall.

You can also change some things in mkbootdisk to automatically have it
add the proper vga/framebuffer settings when it creates a bootdisk

If you decide to use the framebuffer later on, there won't be any need
to change this either way because the framebuffer uses a totally
different concept, and it basically ignores this setting.

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