changing console fonts?

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 5 May 2005, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 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.

something tells me that won't work with an nvidia card.

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