[LUNI] Font Size in "init 3" mode

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On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 09:18:35 -0500
"doug_dallmer" <doug_dallmer at netzero.net> wrote:

>  I boot my RedHat 8.0 in init level 3 then "startx" as required.
> 
>  When I stay at init level 3 I find the font size (and therefore characters
>  per line and lines per screen) too large

Are you saying that the font at the console (not in X-Windows) is too large? You can try increasing the resolution used by the console framebuffer, and that might help. I added "vga=791" to the "kernel" line of my GRUB menu.lst; this forces the framebuffer to 1024x768 at 16bpp, which makes the text in console mode quite a bit smaller. I think the equivalent in LILO is to add "vga=791" to the "append" section of your lilo.conf. 

Anyone who knows better WRT to any of the above, feel free to trout-slap. 

-sten