enlarging terminal

enlarging terminal

[Igor Gueths]

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,
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Re: enlarging terminal

[Samuel Thibault]

Igor Gueths, le Mon 01 Nov 2010 21:13:14 -0400, a écrit :
> Failing that, maybe a framebuffer is the next best thing?

It is.

Samuel

Re: enlarging terminal

[Jason White]

Igor Gueths <igueths@lava-net.com> writes:

> 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?

With the advent of KMS (kernel mode switching), framebuffer console is
now the default in many newer kernels, at least for my hardware (a
laptop with an Intel video chip set, and a desktop machine with an
NVidia card).

On the desktop, stty size shows 65 rows by 210 columns, and this is
without my having to change anything.

Re: enlarging terminal

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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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Re: enlarging terminal

[Steve Holmes]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 04:29:46AM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> I have added vga=773  to my kernel line in the grub menu.lst file,
> which gives me 48 lines of 128 columns.

I also run Arch Linux like Chuck does but I'm using grub2 so I had to
do a similar thing but had to be sure the grub.cfg file included a
'insmod vbe' before I could get any change in screen size; from there
I used vga=790 as a kernel parameter to achieve a 48 row by 128 column
screen.

Another way you could get a large screen with grub2 is alter the
values in /etc/default/grub to use gfxterm as the terminal output but
then grub seemed a lot slower but I got a screen size of 96 rows by
256 columns!

Re: enlarging terminal

[Igor Gueths]

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Hi all, thanks to everyone for the suggestions! I had somheow forgotten about
the vga parameter, it looks like that is what is going to be the easiest to
implement on this CLFS build. At least for testing/playing around with console
sizes that is.
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 06:01:57AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 04:29:46AM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> > I have added vga=773  to my kernel line in the grub menu.lst file,
> > which gives me 48 lines of 128 columns.
> 
> I also run Arch Linux like Chuck does but I'm using grub2 so I had to
> do a similar thing but had to be sure the grub.cfg file included a
> 'insmod vbe' before I could get any change in screen size; from there
> I used vga=790 as a kernel parameter to achieve a 48 row by 128 column
> screen.
> 
> Another way you could get a large screen with grub2 is alter the
> values in /etc/default/grub to use gfxterm as the terminal output but
> then grub seemed a lot slower but I got a screen size of 96 rows by
> 256 columns!
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Re: enlarging terminal

[pj]

I wrote:
> My console boots with 80x25, but after udev has finished it becomes
> 160x65, which I can hardy read.  I want my 80-chars width back...

Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Did you try dpkg-reconfigure console-setup? The Terminus and VGA
> font choice provides e.g. 32x16 font sizes, which are very nice.

Thank you!  Yes, that works.  I had taken some wrong turning down
the console-tools path when I should have been on the console-setup
path... I had to:
  aptitude install console-setup
  aptitude remove console-tools
  aptitude install kbd
  dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

Thanks,  Regards,  Peter Billam

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Re: enlarging terminal

[pj]

Greetings.   (list-newbie warning...)

My console boots with 80x25, but after udev has finished it becomes
160x65, which I can hardy read.  I want my 80-chars width back...

I've found lots of recipies for increasing my console font size,
but they all refer to files which don't exist on my debian squeeze.
I've also tried several dpkg-reconfigure commands.

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

Steve Holmes wrote:
> I'm using grub2 so I had to do a similar thing but had to be sure
> the grub.cfg file included a 'insmod vbe' before I could get any
> change in screen size; from there I used vga=790 as a kernel
> parameter to achieve a 48 row by 128 column screen.
> Another way you could get a large screen with grub2 is alter the
> values in /etc/default/grub to use gfxterm as the terminal output
> but then grub seemed a lot slower but I got a screen size of
> 96 rows by 256 columns!

My grub.cfg contains:
  function load_video {
    insmod vbe
    insmod vga
    insmod video_bochs
    insmod video_cirrus
  }

Should I be changing that to this?:
  function load_video {
    insmod vbe vga=NNN
    insmod vga
    insmod video_bochs
    insmod video_cirrus
  }

What NNN should I use to get back my 80x25 ?

Regards,  Peter Billam

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Re: enlarging terminal

[Samuel Thibault]

pj@pjb.com.au, le Wed 03 Nov 2010 09:05:08 +1000, a écrit :
> My console boots with 80x25, but after udev has finished it becomes
> 160x65, which I can hardy read.  I want my 80-chars width back...
> 
> I've found lots of recipies for increasing my console font size,
> but they all refer to files which don't exist on my debian squeeze.
> I've also tried several dpkg-reconfigure commands.

Did you try dpkg-reconfigure console-setup? The Terminus and VGA font
choice provides e.g. 32x16 font sizes, which are very nice.

Samuel