Debian-newbie questions

[waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org]

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 06:17:51PM -0400, Ilya Palagin wrote

> Also, if you're going to use rc.local just for hdparm, setserial,
> etc, you don't need rc.local.  Instead, install hwtools and edit
> /etc/init.d/hwtools

  It turned out that editing /etc/console-tools/config did what I
wanted, so no need for extra scripts.  The standard VGA text console is
640 pixels X 400 scanlines.  The standard font is 8 X 16.  This gives

640           400
--- columns X --- rows = 80 X 25 display.  Really wastefull on a 17"
  8            16

display.  Putting VGA=6 into lilo.conf selects the 640 X 480 textmode
with 8 X 8 font.  That gives 80 x 60 display, but that's hard on the
eyes.  I prefer VGA=6 with a /etc/console-tools/config entry of
SCREEN_FONT=lat1-12.psf.gz
which gives 480/12 = 40 row display.  The 12-pixel-high font is *MUCH*
nicer than the 80 X 43 display (EGA 640 X 350 textmode with 8 X 8 font).
On my one 19" monitor, I use lat1-10, which gives 480/10 = 48 rows.  The
10-pixel-high font gives a nicer display than standard 80 X 50 mode.
That's the Redhat machine, which requires SVGATextMode to do that.

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