Getting More on the Screen

[Steve Holmes]

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Thanks to several of you who have answered.  I'll have to give these
other options a try.  I am curious however, why I only got 25 lines
even though the kernel said it was an 80x50 display.  I thought I
would at least get the fifty lines to start with.  I'm concerned that
even if I try these other numbers, I'll still get 25 lines or worse,
get a prompt for a valid number without speech.  That very thing
happened to me a while back on an older s3 VGA display.

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:33:48AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Hi, Steve:
> 
> Here's how I do it. I get 64 lines and 130 columns with:
> 
> vga=0x31B
> 
> I have put exactly that statement in my lilo.conf when using lilo, and
> added it to my kernel params with grub.conf when using grub.
> 
> To read more look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
> 
> 
> Steve Holmes writes:
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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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> 				Janina Sajka, Chair
> 				Accessibility Workgroup
> 				Free Standards Group (FSG)
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