changing console fonts?

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 6 May 2005, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> On Thursday 05 May 2005 05:09 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 May 2005, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 	By the way, my experience has been that the selections presented by
> > > vga=ask, always look like crap, whereas using something like vga=0x314
> > > (800x600/16) or vga=0x317 (1024x768/16) look much better.
> >
> > Hrmmm, since you're using Debian, perhaps you know the secret.  This is
> > for a customer bug, so i don't really care how crappy things look, i'm
> > just trying to replicazte what they're reporting.  The thing is, with
> > vga=ask, i'm choosing different options, and they work for a while, and
> > then all of a sudden towards the end of the boot process, something is
> > resetting it back to the default of 80x25.  So clearly, it is possible to
> > change this post-boot, since Debian's initscripts are doing it, and i
> > don't want it done.
> >
> > any ideas?
>
> I haven't experienced that, myself. None of the services being started on my
> systems touches the console modes or fonts. Are they starting any unusual
> services? Also, are they using a standard kernel or have they rolled their
> own?

This is on the Debian Sarge system that I installed, using Debian's 2.4.27
kernel.  I don't see anything unusual in the process list.

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