changing console fonts?

[Kurt Wall]

On Thursday 05 May 2005 14:14, Net Llama! enlightened us thusly:
> 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.

Use the framebuffer driver for your frame buffer card and set a 
suitable resolution. For my matrox cards, the boot-time argument
is something like matroxfb:video=matroxfb:vesa:0xNNN, where
NNN is documented in $KRNSRC/Documentation/fb/*txt. You can
use fbset -a after you've booted.

Kurt