more data on screen

[Ralph W. Reid]

I tried 'vga = extended' in Slackware 9.0 with disappointing results.
Using 'vga=ask' at the 'boot' prompt should present a menu of choices
for video modes which work with your hardware, but this all happens
before any speech support is loaded.  I found by making some guesses
that modes in the range 0 through 9 or so worked with my
hardware--your system may offer different selections.  After trying
all of the modes which let the system boot (the system simply returned
to the menu when I tried an out-of-range value), I settled on mode 8,
which on my hardware provides 132X43 columns and rows.  I then put
this value in /etc/lilo.conf and ran `lilo` to make the value the
default at future boot times.  HTH, and have a _great_ day!

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:59:49AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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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.
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Cheryl
> > 
> > "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
> > 
> > 
> > 
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