changing text mode for Linux

Keith Morse kgmorse
Tue Feb 28 12:33:05 PST 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 do this at boot time. I append "vga=0x317" to the kernel line in
grub.conf which results in a display of 1024x768 text mode

The documentation is in the kernel package.


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