Bootup console screen size problem

[Telmo Silva]

Hi,

well I too changed the default parameter in my grub.conf file. You can use a 
parameter like vga=792 which brings you to a 1024x768 with 32 bpp (I think), 
or you can use vga=795 to have a even bigger resolution. 

Hope that helps,

Em Domingo 01 Fevereiro 2004 09:16, o Scott Stevens escreveu:
> 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 at netvision.net.il
>
> Try putting something like:
>
>     SYSFONT="LatArCyrHeb-08"
>
> in the file /etc/sysconfig/i18n.

-- 
Telmo Silva <tsilva at zmail.pt>
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