Command Line Interfaces

[Brian McKee]

On 04/10/2007, Pete Holsberg <pjh42 at pobox.com> wrote:
>  What controls the resolution in the console?
>  Pretend I'm a Unix geek. Now what's your answer? :-)




  R.T.F.M. ..................







But then I'd be pretending I'm one too !

I'll take a stab at this -
What's displaying the console?  I've got a Digital VT220 here that the
resolution was set back in the 70s and it hasn't changed since. Font
selection is kinda hardwired too... :-)
<way OT - anybody interested in buying a couple of IBM SST 16 port
serial cards? For sale in central Ontario>

Assuming 'x86 video card console' otherwise all bets are off...

Framebuffer yes or no?

If framebuffer yes then you can alter resolution by passing arguments
to the kernel at boot - i.e. the vga=771 stuff in grub
see <http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Applications_GUI_Multimedia/Howto_Change_Font_Size_During_Boot_Framebuffer_Resolution>

If framebuffer no then it's somehow tied into font size - and I'm way
over my head.  Traditionally is 80x25 but you can change that even
without framebuffer...  I remember googling up related info while I
was trying to make a Mac 80x25 at the console (never succeeded
either...)
Try man consolechars  and or look at
http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/howtos/Cyrillic/Cyrillic-HOWTO-3.html


Does that help?  or are you trolling  (and I fell for it...)

Brian