Re: [tlug] Text mode screen is too big

[simon colston <simon@example.com>]

Sorry to butt in with a slightly different question but I think we're barking up the same tree.

Does anyone know anything more about this?

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:48:33 +0900
"A.Sajjad Zaidi" <sajjad@example.com> wrote:

> 
> By 'half screen or smaller' do you mean at a higher resolution?

I'd like to change my terminal (without X) to run at a higher resolution.  Currently it's 80x25 characters.  I'd like to change it to 132 columns if possible.

> 
> You can get this with either the SVGA text modes or the framebuffer mode if
> your video card and kernel support it. They are both usually set from
> the boot loader so check when /boot/grub.conf was last changed.
> 
> You can also change the former with 'SVGATextMode' and the frame buffer
> settings with 'fbset'.

Is SVGATextMode a program?  I don't seem to be able to find it on my machine.