[Indy] text console

[Indy] text console

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

Hi.

Is there any way to change the size and refresh rate for the
text console? I've searched in the mail-list archives and on
google and came up with nothing.

Regards,

-- 
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann@icm.edu.pl>

Re: [Indy] text console

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:20:12PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Is there any way to change the size and refresh rate for the
> text console? I've searched in the mail-list archives and on
> google and came up with nothing.

Doesn't anyone know? Please help or say it's impossible. I'm
stuck with 1280x1024@60Hz which is very uncomfortable to my
eyes.

-- 
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann@icm.edu.pl>

Re: [Indy] text console

[Ladislav Michl]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:25:42PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:20:12PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > Is there any way to change the size and refresh rate for the
> > text console? I've searched in the mail-list archives and on
> > google and came up with nothing.
> 
> Doesn't anyone know? Please help or say it's impossible. I'm
> stuck with 1280x1024@60Hz which is very uncomfortable to my
> eyes.

newport_con nor newport xfree86 driver doesn't perform any VC2
programing. that means that there is currently no way to setup
refresh rate from linux.

	ladis

Re: [Indy] text console

[Guido Guenther]

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On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:25:42PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> Doesn't anyone know? Please help or say it's impossible. I'm
> stuck with 1280x1024@60Hz which is very uncomfortable to my
> eyes.
Try the "monitor" PROM variable to switch to 1024x768. See:
 http://www.parallab.uib.no/SGI_bookshelves/SGI_Admin/books/IA_ConfigOps/sgi_html/ch09.html#LE63851-PARENT
Cheers,
 -- Guido

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Re: [Indy] text console

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:58:46PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:25:42PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > Doesn't anyone know? Please help or say it's impossible. I'm
> > stuck with 1280x1024@60Hz which is very uncomfortable to my
> > eyes.
> Try the "monitor" PROM variable to switch to 1024x768. See:
>  http://www.parallab.uib.no/SGI_bookshelves/SGI_Admin/books/IA_ConfigOps/sgi_html/ch09.html#LE63851-PARENT

Thanks. I've also found this page:
http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi/0650/bks/SGI_Admin/books/IA_ConfigOps/sgi_html/ch09.html#LE63851-PARENT
which appears to be the same, though.

They say nothing about supported values of the "monitor" variable in
PROM. After googling around I tried to "setenv monitor l", but it
doesn't seem to have any effect. A few people on the usenet say it's
possible to change the resolution only from within IRIX.

-- 
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann@icm.edu.pl>