Getting More on the Screen

[Thomas Stivers]

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On Tue, Sep 14 2004 at 08:05:21AM -0400, Ameer Armaly wrote:
> 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.

If you don't have svgatextmode (stm for short) or it for some reason
won't work for you, you can use "vga=791" on the boot line or in lilo's
append line to get a 128x48 display. There are likely ways to get even
more, but I want it to be readable to the sighted occasionally.

HTH

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Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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