arch linux - setting screen size

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Sat Sep 4 17:55:00 EDT 2010


Adam Myrow, le Sat 04 Sep 2010 12:05:57 -0500, a écrit :
> Using stty doesn't change the screen size, it just tells the terminal to 
> pretend that the screen size is different.

That can be just enough in a lot of cases.

> The best way to make sure you 
> have the 80X25 screen is to pass "vga=normal" at boot time to the kernel.

It won't work with newer kernels which enable video kernel-mode settings
at boottime.

Samuel



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