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From: Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckh@ftml.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: enlarging terminal
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 04:29:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101102082946.GA21093@rx.localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101102011314.GA12472@lava-net.com>

Hi Igor,
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 09:13:14PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote:
> Hi all. A while back I used to use the Stty hack for enlarging my console i.e.,
> stty cols 200 rows 81. However, in later kernels this method no longer works.
> Therefore, I wondered what us Speakup users are doing these days to enlarge our
> consoles? Is Svgatextmode still a viable option? Failing that, maybe a
> framebuffer is the next best thing? Anyway, I just wondered what the general
> consensus was. Thanks and regards,

I have added vga=773  to my kernel line in the grub menu.lst file,
which gives me 48 lines of 128 columns.

Chuck


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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Igor Gueths
 ` Samuel Thibault
 ` Jason White
 ` Chuck Hallenbeck [this message]
   ` Steve Holmes
     ` Igor Gueths
 pj
 ` Samuel Thibault
 pj

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