Terminal window

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Sat Apr 17 17:30:06 UTC 2010


On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Grub2 setup has nothing to do with the virtual consoles; their fonts
>> are set through console-setup.
>
> I beg to differ. Before I recommended it, I tried it on my own
> machine, and it *has* changed the resolution of the Linux console,
> from standard VGA text mode - 80×25 characters - to the full native
> res of my LCD, 1024×768, which translates to 128 characters across by
> 48 lines down. Same font @ higher res = more characters.
>
> I was not attempting to describe how to change the font; I was
> describing how to change the resolution, and the advice I gave was
> both factual and accurate.

Not for the VTs.




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