From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Reinhard Karcher Subject: Re: Using console graphics (-s option) on non-standard resolutions Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:37:06 +0100 Message-ID: <4D7E6E62.4040509@gmx.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format="flowed" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Am 14.03.2011 20:15, schrieb Daren Krive: > However all these newer distros change the resolution of the console > (tty1 =96 tty6) to something much higher than the standard 80x25 and > even change the font. Apparently most people *like* this but I prefe= r > to have a standard console. If I need more space for a Linux session > I will use a full-screen xterm. > > The real problem is however that it seems that these non-standard > resolutions cause problems for DOSEMU when I use the =93-s=94 option. > > If I run DOSEMU with the s- option I get some blue text very briefly > on the screen and then my whole screen goes blank. The only way I ca= n > get things back to normal (that I know of)is to hard-boot my machine > (ouch). Running DOSEMU without the =96s options works fine but gives > weird output because the screen is not in 80x25 mode. > > So my question is twofold. How can I prevent Mint (or any other > distro) from doing something silly with the screen resolution? Also > can we get DOSEMU to error out with some nice error message or > something when this happens? Or is there some other solution? You could use dos in X and switch to full screen using ctrl-alt-f. To configure tty1-tty6 to 80x25, that depends on your graphic card and=20 is a linux question you should ask someone, who knows your distribution= =2E Reinhard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html