[techtalk] window manager preference?

[Telsa Gwynne]

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 11:01:33AM +0100 or thereabouts, Conor Daly wrote:
 
> gnome-terminal and can read all the all of the subject lines in mutt.  So
> now, the point of these ramblings...  Can I set the console to 128x50 or
> something like that?  Had a look at stty but couldn't find anything
> helpful there.

Yes, you can. My laptop needed a newer kernel, and rather than do it 
myself, I got husband to do it. (I know I can, so it's easier to make 
him do it these days :)) 

And along what he was supposed to be doing, he had turned on some 
option I never knew about and added an extra line to lilo.conf 
(which irritated me, I just asked him for a kernel, I didn't ask 
him to go and install it and mess with my /etc :)). 

And wow. 

It booted to provide smaller letters and far more lines and columns
on the console. I'm not sure quite how many lines and columns it is,
because it's upstairs, and it's a lot of stairs just to go and check 
that :)

I must find out what he did. I want to do it on my other machine
now! All I know is "framebuffer". Potentially useful-looking bits
in the lilo entry for that kernel are: 
	label=vesafb
	vga=0x317


There's also something called svgatextmode, I think. (At least, I
think that's different.)

Telsa