[LUNI] Font Size in "init 3" mode

[bliss at attbi.com]

The potential values for vga= are:
             640x480 800x600   1024x768   1280x1024  1600x1200
256 (8 Bit)    769      771         773        775         796
32768 (15 Bit) 784      787         790        793         797
65536 (16 Bit) 785      788         791        794         798
16,8M (24 Bit) 786      789         792        795         799

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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
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