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  From: justin@tardis.mx.com.au
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 22:22:20 +1030 (CST)

Re: video modes

On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Mark Pulford wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Darryl Ross wrote:
> 
> > Under dos you can change the default 25 lines a screen to 40 or 50. Is
> > it possible to do that under RH5.2?
> 
> Add "vga=ask" to your lilo prompt and see what comes up. Once you know
> what mode you like you can add "vga=NUM" to your lilo.conf. 

Even better, look into SVGATextMode.

Lets you do all sorts of modes, like 100x37 etc.

Make full use of that monitor! Even a 14" is capable of much more than
80x25.

Long live the console!

	- Justin

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