changing console fonts?

[Net Llama!]

Yea, i figured out that appending "vga=ask" to the entry in lilo.conf
works at bootup, but I can't find any way to change this afterwards
without rebooting.  That Wiki doesn't seem to cover it either.

On Thu, 5 May 2005, Mike Reinehr wrote:

> The easiest way is to enable the console framebuffer in the kernel and then
> use vga=0xNNN kernel parameter when booting.
>
> Here's a good How-To:
>
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Framebuffer_Support
>
> HTH's
>
> cmr
>
> On Thursday 05 May 2005 01:14 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> > Anyone know the magic that will let me change the console font size ?  I
> > want/need to change to 80x50 or 132x60 from the default 80x25.  setfont
> > seems to be related, but doesn't seem to make the change permanent.
>
>

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