changing console fonts?

[Mike Reinehr]

On Thursday 05 May 2005 03:02 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

	I don't remember where, but I do remember reading that you can not change 
your selection without rebooting.

	By the way, my experience has been that the selections presented by vga=ask, 
always look like crap, whereas using something like vga=0x314 (800x600/16) or 
vga=0x317 (1024x768/16) look much better.

cmr

> 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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