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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: arch linux - setting screen size
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 23:55:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100904215500.GN22412@const> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1009041204440.1708@dell.bellsouth.net>

Adam Myrow, le Sat 04 Sep 2010 12:05:57 -0500, a écrit :
> Using stty doesn't change the screen size, it just tells the terminal to 
> pretend that the screen size is different.

That can be just enough in a lot of cases.

> The best way to make sure you 
> have the 80X25 screen is to pass "vga=normal" at boot time to the kernel.

It won't work with newer kernels which enable video kernel-mode settings
at boottime.

Samuel

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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Christopher Moore
 ` Samuel Thibault
   ` Adam Myrow
     ` Hart Larry
       ` Samuel Thibault
     ` Samuel Thibault [this message]

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