Re: Console 80x50 SVGA

Camilo A. Reyes
2004-11-06T22:59:32Z

On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 03:12:22PM -0600, Camilo A. Reyes wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 08:43:43PM +0100, Jurriaan wrote:
> > From: Camilo A. Reyes <camilo@leamonde.no-ip.org>
> > Date: Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 12:41:12PM -0600
> > >
> > > If I may ask what vga number are you using to set it to 1024x768.
> > > I believe I have tried it before with no success, but I'm willing
> > > to try again.
> >
> > Might I again refer you to google?
> >
> > Searching for 'linux framebuffer 1024x768 vga=' gives me 11.800 hits,
> > which surely is enough to choose from. Also, this is mentioned in
> > /usr/src/linux-<whatever version>/Documentation/fb/<somefile, depending
> > on your framebuffer, which you didn't mention>. Those docs were lovingly
> > crafted by kernel hackers hoping to answer all the questions users may
> > have, so it would be a shame not to use them, right?
> >
> > Good luck,
> > Jurriaan
> > --
> > A seminar on Time Travel will be held two weeks ago.
> > Debian (Unstable) GNU/Linux 2.6.9-mm1 2x6078 bogomips load 0.05
>
> Actually I knew what the answer to that question was, its 795 for 1024x768
> and 32 bpp, I was just asking to check for consistency. :-P Anyhow, that
> documentation talks about using fbset, I gave that a shot and now my entire
> tty is dead. :-( It also mentions lots of bugs, hmmm not sure if it's even
> worth looking deeper into this. But let me set up some kernel parameters
> and restart my system to see what happens, I always refrain from restarting
> the system, but oh well.
>
> BTW, my framebuffer its the aty128fb.
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Looks like we have success, I recompiled the kernel with the following options
turned on:

Video mode selection support: y
Select compiled-in fonts:
VGA 8x16 font: y

Then I added this line to my grub.conf file:

video=aty128fb:1028x768 vga=792

Not sure if the vga part makes any difference, my educated guess is that it
doesn't. But this setup will allow for a console that is 129x47 lines. (yay!)

Thanks for the help.