changing console fonts?

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 5 May 2005, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> 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.

Hrmmm, since you're using Debian, perhaps you know the secret.  This is
for a customer bug, so i don't really care how crappy things look, i'm
just trying to replicazte what they're reporting.  The thing is, with
vga=ask, i'm choosing different options, and they work for a while, and
then all of a sudden towards the end of the boot process, something is
resetting it back to the default of 80x25.  So clearly, it is possible to
change this post-boot, since Debian's initscripts are doing it, and i
don't want it done.

any ideas?

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