changing text mode for Linux

[Mike Reinehr]

On Tuesday 28 February 2006 07:19 am, A. Khattri wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Man-wai CHANG wrote:
> > In the old DOS day, there was a tool called vmode.exe to switch text
> > mode from 80x25 to 132x50.
> >
> > How could I do that in Linux?
>
> I suspect you need to enable the framebuffer console - then you can
> specify funky fonts at boot time.

>From 'man console-codes':

> ESC [ ? 3 h
> DECCOLM (default off = 80 columns): 80/132 col mode switch. The driver
> sources note that this alone does not suffice; some user-mode utility such
> as resizecons(8) has to change the hardware registers on the console video
> card.

So, this might be what you need:

http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl8_resizecons.htm

Hope this helps.

cmr
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