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[Steve Holmes]

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Thank you! Thank you!  It was the font! I just disabled rc.font and I
have a 50 line display with no other changes.  I'll have to go out and
experiment with Chuck's value and see if I can really squint to see
the screen:).  Actually, char size is totally moot to me since I use
speech exclusively.

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:41:32PM -0600, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> Hi.  Don't know about Slackware, but you can have this problem in Debian
> because of the console font loaded during boot.  You might want to check
> your startup scripts and see if you are loading a font.
> 
> Hope this helps.
>           Kenny
> 
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 10:17:52PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > Well, using extended works for me while the stuff is being loaded.  I
> > can press the numpad-period and speakup speaks "line 50 col 1 tty1"
> > but right about the time the rc.d scripts finish up their thing, It
> > reverts back to saying "line 25...".  That's why I think something is
> > getting in the way later on after the boot sequence.
> > 
> > On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 01:35:59PM -0800, Ralph W. Reid wrote:
> > > 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!
> > 
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