changing console fonts?

[Mike Reinehr]

On Thursday 05 May 2005 06:24 pm, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 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

No, but I very likely _remembered_ incorrectly. Going back to the very How-To 
that I recommended to Net Llama, it clearly mentions changing fonts & modes 
in paragraphs 15 & 16. Mea culpa.

cmr

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