Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

[Mick]

On Saturday 05 February 2011 17:10:15 Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 09:40:41PM +0000, Mick wrote
>
> > Leave KMS enabled and add the parameter:
> >   video=1024x768 (or whatever suits your screen and taste)
> >
> > to your kernel line.  You shouldn't need vesafb, uvesa or any other
> > drivers to achieve this.
>
>   Thanks very much.  That works.  I feel stupid.  I always used "VGA=6"
> to get the equivalant of "video=640x480".  When "VGA=6" stopped working,
> it didn't occur to me to try "video=640x480", because I assumed they
> were identical.
>
>   Anyhow, I'm typing this in a text console.  /etc/conf.d/consolefont is
>
> CONSOLEFONT="lat1-10"
>
>   Combine that with 640x480 video, and that gives me an 80x48 textmode
> display.  Because I'm using a 10-pixel-high font, the text is a lot
> nicer than VGA 80x50 that you may have seen on Windows.  That mode uses
> an 8-pixel-high font on a 640x400 display for 50 rows.  Doing an "ll"
> finds more lat1-?? fonts in /usr/share/consolefonts, which give the
> following possible text displays for "video=640x480"...
>
> lat1-08 ==> 80x60
> lat1-10 ==> 80x48
> lat1-12 ==> 80x40
> lat1-14 ==> 80x34
> lat1-16 ==> 80x30
>
>   As they say in the infomercials "but wait, there's more".  My monitor
> supports 1280x720 and 1280x1024 modes.  Using "screen" I should be able
> to do splitscreen mode with 2 sessions side-by-each.  Or vim in one
> screen with :vsplit splitting into two subscreens.  Possibilities
> include two side-by-each sessions of...
>
> Font      1280x720  1280x1024
>
> lat1-08 ==> 80x90   80x128
> lat1-10 ==> 80x72   80x102
> lat1-12 ==> 80x60   80x85
> lat1-14 ==> 80x51   80x73
> lat1-16 ==> 80x45   80x64
>
>   I feel like a kid with a shiney new toy.  And when prices for 30 inch
> monitors come down, I could go nuts with *THREE* 80-column screens
> side-by-each in 1920x1200 or 1920x1080 video mode.

Glad you cracked this one.  :-)  
-- 
Regards,
Mick