Add the following option to your /etc/lilo.conf:
vga=ask
After you find a resolution you like, change it to that mode
permanently.
- Scott
Benjamin Scherrey wrote:
>
> Another question about my little P100 Dell laptop. Its got such a
> small screen that running X is pretty much useless. KDE dialogs are
> simply too large and you often can't see the buttons that are needed
> to operate it cause they're about five inches lower than your screen
> extends! So... I've resigned myself to running this box as text only,
> which is okay, cause all I really want to do is handle some email
> stuff and write C++ code with it. Now - I want more text on the screen
> than the standard 80x40 characters. I'm running RedHat 6.2 and I
> recall that there are a lot of text mode options from my early RedHat
> days but I don't recall them or know what the current state of the art
> is for this kind of stuff. Anyone care to clue me in on how to best
> manage my text mode displays under Linux? How can I have my machine
> boot up in a smaller font text mode with all my sessions this way? I'm
> a simple programmer who needs help from you sysadmin types out there!
>
> thanx much & later,
>
> Ben Scherrey
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