Re: console font

From: Angelo Bertolli (angelo_at_freeshell.org)
Date: 09/24/05

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    Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:21:05 -0400
To: debian@lamie.net

    debian@lamie.net wrote:

    >Hi there,
    >my default debian installation gives a console with 25 rows and a
    >huuuuuuuge font. I feed vga=ask as boot parameter and choose 80x43 and
    >get a viewable screen with squashed fonts. During the boot messages,
    >just after the nic is up and running, the fonts reconfigure and I'm
    >back to 25 rows again ;-( with a squashed font ;-((. I've checked
    >through the /etc/init.d/* scripts and can't see anything relevant that
    >could be doing this so I'm guessing it must be happening at the kernel
    >level. Don't want to go back to other distro's. Love the debian
    >package managment system but can't be doing with the huge font. Does
    >anyone know how I can resolve this problem? Do I need to configure a
    >text file? Influence modules that are loaded? All help greatly
    >appreciated.
    >
    >
    Try passing in vga=0x317, dont' have my framebuffer chart on hand, but
    you can look it up on google. 

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