console size

高生旺 coscell at mail.batol.net
Tue Mar 17 01:16:18 UTC 2009


I found a line in output of dmesg:
Change to coulor framebuffer 128x48.
But why the real size is 85x34?

On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Probably a change in the video driver.
> 
> You may not get the original grid back. You will probably need sighted
> assistance to figure out what resolutions are available.
> 
> If you use grub, put 'vga=ask' in the kernel arguments. Be prepared to
> use Scroll Lock with a sighted assistance to learn the available
> resolutions. Write them down and try the highest resolution provided,
> e.g. on my Thinkpad I have vga=0x318
>  which gives me 128x48 -- the best I can do today.
> 
> 
> Janina
> 
> 高生旺 writes:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm running slackware. Before 12.2, the console size is 128*48. After 
> > upgrade to 12.3, the console size changes to 85*34. How to restore 
> > original coscole size?
> > 
> > Coscell
> > 
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