Command Line Interfaces

[Pete Holsberg]

Mario Vukelic pounded out the following on his or her keyboard on 
10/4/2007 3:37 PM:
> On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 14:54 -0400, Pete Holsberg wrote:
>   
>> What controls the resolution in the console?
>>
>> Pretend I'm a Unix geek. Now what's your answer? :-)
>>     
>
> Pass a vga= command line to the kernel to change the resolution. Google
> for "grub vga modes" or something.
>   

Tried it. Didn't work.

> You can also use a framebuffer, which would give you higher resolutions
> easily.
>   

How do I use a framebuffer?
> /etc/console-tools/config to change the font.
>   
??

linux [pjh] /home/pjh> sudo /etc/console-tools/config
sudo: /etc/console-tools/config: command not found
linux [pjh] /home/pjh> /etc/console-tools/config    
-bash: /etc/console-tools/config: Permission denied
linux [pjh] /home/pjh>   

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Pete Holsberg
Columbus, NJ

Treat everyone the way you want to be treated...
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