RE: Terminal settings

["Brune, Charlie" <Charlie.Brune@anheuser-busch.com>]

Stan,

Perfect!  I ended up putting "vga=ask" which works nicely.  You press <return>
(when prompted) during the boot process and it  shows you all the modes you can
have.

I am now running at 80 x 50.

Thanks,
Charlie

-----Original Message-----
From: Stan Reichardt [mailto:stan@mail.sluug.org]
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 3:37 PM
To: silug-discuss@silug.org
Subject: Re: Terminal settings


"Brune, Charlie" wrote:
> 
> My monitor (in RedHat 7.0) appears to be displaying 24 rows by 80 columns.
> 
> Is there a way to increase the columns and/or rows?  That would be
cool!!!!!!!!!
> 

Charlie,

Just ran accross this in browsing thru "Linux for Your Laptop" by Bill Ball.

Per page 230, check out LILO's documentation, User_Guide.ps, found under
the /usr/doc/lilo directory, the vga= kernel message has several options:

o normal.  Uses normal VGA text mode
o extended.  Attempts to use 80x50 text mode.
o ask.  Just before booting, prompts for a number, corresponding to a
    displayed text mode.

stan r.
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