Guest joehill Posted March 25, 2003 Report Share Posted March 25, 2003 any way to change the text mode font? since I have a 19 inch monitor, I would love to have Mandrake boot to text mode but with smaller fonts. obviously I cannot change the resolution right? there must be a config file somewhere which says text mode font = 6x13 or something... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qnr Posted March 25, 2003 Report Share Posted March 25, 2003 I haven't thought about this in a long time. There probably is, me though, I just use VGA=xx in the "append" line. Try putting VGA=ask in the append line of your lilo or grub configure file, then make it active (for example #/sbin/lilo), or just type it in manually on the next reboot. "ask" will give you a menu of choices, select one, see if you like it, and if you do, replace "ask" with the number that you selected (in your configuration file) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest joehill Posted March 25, 2003 Report Share Posted March 25, 2003 you mean like in here: image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdb1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi" vga=788 read-only the vga value controls the font? thanks! i can't believe this might be possibe, i would definitely spend more time in text mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qnr Posted March 25, 2003 Report Share Posted March 25, 2003 Yes, that's it. This is from man lilo.conf: vga=<mode> This specifies the VGA text mode that should be selected when booting. It may be specified as a global option. The following values are recognized (case is ignored): normal: select normal 80x25 text mode. extended (or ext): select 80x50 text mode. ask: stop and ask for user input (at boot time). <number>: use the corresponding text mode. A list of available modes can be obtained by booting with vga=ask and pressing [Enter]. If this variable is omitted, the VGA mode setting contained in the kernel image is used. (And that is set at compile time using the SVGA_MODE variable in the kernel Makefile, and can later be changed with the rdev(8) program.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest joehill Posted March 25, 2003 Report Share Posted March 25, 2003 just to be sure, I change this line: vga=788 to vga=ask thank you for your patience. I wonder if there is a list of numeric values to put there to start different modes. If I find one that would be really neat to play with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest joehill Posted March 25, 2003 Report Share Posted March 25, 2003 woooooot! # VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k # vga=791 # Normal VGA console # vga = normal # VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k # vga=791 # VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x32k # vga=790 # VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256 # vga=773 # VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x64k # vga=788 # VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x32k # vga=787 # VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x256 # vga=771 # VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x64k # vga=785 # VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x32k # vga=784 # VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x256 # vga=769 gonna try these out! though it says I need framebuffer support in my kernel (or, I would imagine, in my Nvidia kernel modules?). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest joehill Posted March 25, 2003 Report Share Posted March 25, 2003 wooooooooooooooot! worked like a charm. I have to figure out how to get it to stop asking me every boot, but I don' t reboot often anyway. try it, you'll love it. there's a few threads on it here "as long as you're using lilo as your boot loader" All you need to do is change the display mode in /etc/lilo.conf The line that says vga=normal for 1024x768 (frame buffer mode) try vga=791 I personally like the text modes better, like vga=8 you can also change it to vga=ask it will ask you what console mode to use at each boot. ... Oh, and don't forget to run /sbin/lilo after your changes. now to change to a better font. I am a tweaking freak. I can't help it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qnr Posted March 25, 2003 Report Share Posted March 25, 2003 Well, to get it to stop asking, change your lilo.conf to reflect the number that you like as listed above, and then run /sbin/lilo again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest joehill Posted March 25, 2003 Report Share Posted March 25, 2003 Well, to get it to stop asking, change your lilo.conf to reflect the number that you like as listed above, and then run /sbin/lilo again this is what i have: image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdb1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi" vga=795 read-only and I ran /sbin/lilo, but it still gives me a list to choose from 1,2,...a then it boots. i wish i could give you the exact output... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest joehill Posted March 26, 2003 Report Share Posted March 26, 2003 I found this image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdb1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi" vga=791 read-only works really well. 791 should be supported by default and you may just have to adjust your monitor settings (screen position, size) just once to deal with the change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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