changing console fonts?

[Kurt Wall]

On Thursday 05 May 2005 19:06, Net Llama! enlightened us thusly:
> 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.

But if will if you use the rivafb driver. 

Kurt