changing text mode for Linux

[Ken Moffat]

Keith Morse wrote:

>Man-wai CHANG wrote:
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>>In the old DOS day, there was a tool called vmode.exe to switch text
>>mode from 80x25 to 132x50.
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>>How could I do that in Linux?
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>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
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I believe your kernel must have this capability compiled in, yes? I have
a libranet install that shows a blank screen during boot, until gdm
starts up.


>The documentation is in the kernel package.
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ken