How do you display 50 lines on the console with a VGA monitor/adapter?
I don't have X running (yet) but would like to have 50 lines like I do
in DOS.
--Bill.
by William Wa » Thu, 07 Jul 1994 12:23:41
How do you display 50 lines on the console with a VGA monitor/adapter?
I don't have X running (yet) but would like to have 50 lines like I do
in DOS.
--Bill.
by Kevin Spous » Tue, 12 Jul 1994 15:17:24
This works for me booting from a floppy:Quote:>How do you display 50 lines on the console with a VGA monitor/adapter?
>I don't have X running (yet) but would like to have 50 lines like I do
>in DOS.
rdev -v /dev/fd0 2
so I would imagine you could do:
rdev -v /vmlinuz 2 or
rdev -v /zlilo 2
with the same results..
do the rdev command and reboot. You should now be in 50 line mode until you
change the kernel with rdev -v again.
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I tried that and it didn't do anything. I ahve slakware 2.0, if that
is any help. Can someone tell me what (no doubt silly) thing I
am missing? Or point me to the LaTeX file `lilo.14.n.gz' that
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