changing console fonts?

Kurt Wall kwall
Thu May 5 17:57:54 PDT 2005


On Thursday 05 May 2005 18:04, Mike Reinehr enlightened us thusly:
> 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.

You read incorrectly, then. fbset (provided you're using a framebuffer
driver for the console) does precisely this without rebooting.

Kurt


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