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  3. May 2003

Re: 2 questions

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Scott Klement wrote:

> > 2 - changing text mode: Some of my screens on ibm are 27x132 instead of
> > the normal 24x80. on windows, terminal client changed automatically
> > between those modes.. is there any way of doing this also automatically
> > under text mode on linux?
> >
>
> Is there a plain text mode for VGA-compatible hardware that supplies 132
> columns?!

Yes, there is.  I think you have to enable the framebuffer driver in the
linux kernel (but maybe not).  You do have to configure your kernel to
boot in the proper VGA mode.  Usually this is done in /etc/lilo.conf.
There are a lot of possibilities there so look in your kernel docs
(usually /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb).

James Rich

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