more data on screen

[Steve Holmes]

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Well, to bring up this topic discussed heavily last month, I still
have an issue.  I'm currently using 'vga = extended' and I still get
25x80 screens.  During this past month, I got a new machine with new
video and discovered something.  Durring the loading of the kernel and
its drivers, I noticed I had 50 lines.  But after the shell completed
and terminal options were set I was back to 25 lines.  To get the
additional screen capacity, do I also have to change something in my
terminal options? I'm running Slackware 10.0 with the default
implimentation of terminfo and my console type is linux on all my tty
lines.  I thought it strange that I had greeater capacity while
loading but then it turns off after finishing the startup.

Any ideas?

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 01:37:08PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Well, I think it may not have to do with framebuffers per se.
> 
> in the kernel configuration items, here's something you might want 
> to know:
> under "Device drivers" "Console display driver support" "VGA text console" 
> "video mode selection support" the help says:
> This enables support for text mode selection on kernel startup. If 
> you want to take advantage of some high-resolution text mode your 
> card's BIOS offers, but the traditional Linux utilities like 
> SVGATextMode don't, you can say Y here and set the mode using the 
> "vga=" option from your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) or set 
> "vga=ask" which brings up a video mode menu on kernel startup. (Try 
> "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot loader about 
> how to pass options to the kernel.) 
> Read the file <file:Documentation/svga.txt> for more information 
> about the Video mode selection support. 
> Hth.
> 
> 
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> Cheryl
> 
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> 
> 
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