Getting More on the Screen

[Ameer Armaly]

Rather than using extended vga, use a utility called svgatextmode (or stm
for short).  It let's you resize the screen, possibly all the way up to a
200x81 screen.
In short, if you don't care about whether anyone can see it, do:
stm -v 200x81x9
Otherwise, you'll have to take a look at the config file to see what cards
support what.


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From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 7:21 AM
Subject: Getting More on the Screen


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> I tried to get a 50 line display by putting the option
> vga = extended
> on my lilo boot parms but I still get only 25 lines on my actual
> screen.  The kernel boot messages show an 80.50 display but
> still... This has happened on two different machines of mine and one
> of them is brand new.  Do I need to change anything else to get this
> to work such as terminfo entries or tset commands?
>
> Thanks for any help.
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