From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pv0-f170.google.com (mail-pv0-f170.google.com [74.125.83.170]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56023C1A49C for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 09:02:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: by pvf33 with SMTP id 33so861407pvf.29 for ; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 06:02:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.144.7 with SMTP id r7mr5872240wfd.258.1288702921785; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 06:02:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lnx3.holmesgrown.com (ip72-208-185-148.ph.ph.cox.net [72.208.185.148]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x35sm10971101wfd.13.2010.11.02.06.01.59 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 02 Nov 2010 06:02:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 06:01:57 -0700 From: Steve Holmes To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: enlarging terminal Message-ID: <20101102130157.GB19291@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> Mail-Followup-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca References: <20101102011314.GA12472@lava-net.com> <20101102082946.GA21093@rx.localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101102082946.GA21093@rx.localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:02:02 -0000 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!