Debian-newbie questions

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:31:21AM -0400, waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org wrote:
>   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

Technically VGA uses 9x16 font on a 720x400 display.

> 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.

I prefer modprobe matroxfb_base vesa=0x1BF fv=75 fh=95 
which does 1600x1200 on my 19" so I get 200x75 text console.  I believe
that would be 8x16 font in that case.

Lennart Sorensen
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