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Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles?

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Zaphod Beeblebrox decreed, Read These Runes!:
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 06:56:20 -0500, philo wrote:
> 
>> On 04/28/2015 06:56 PM, Kenny McCormack wrote:
>>> What I mean is: The number displayed as the number of columns when I do
>>> "stty -a", like this: stty -a -F /dev/tty1
>>>
>>> I have two systems, running the same OS on the same hardware.  One one
>>> machine, when I do: sudo stty -a -F /dev/tty1, it says "164 columns".
>>> On the other one, when I do the same command, it says "222 columns".
>>>
>>> Note that on both machines (and, as far as I know, on any Linux
>>> system),
>>> you get the same result for any of the virtual consoles (/dev/tty1,
>>> /dev/tty2, etc).  But you seem to get different results on different
>>> systems.  What determines this?
>> 
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ConsoleFramebuffer
> 
> Good partial answer. My HDMI 1920x1080 monitor isn't listed, I wonder
> what resolution it's using. It says "rows 67 columns 240". The one
> piece that seems to be missing here is the choice of font for the tty.

I can offer a solution that works well here:

fbset -a -xres 1920 -yres 1080 #in rc.local
setfont -v iso02-12x22.psfu.gz #in rc.font

Season to taste for your distro's init..

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What determines the width of the virtual consoles? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2015-04-28 23:56 +0000
  Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-29 05:13 +0100
    Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-04-29 06:43 +0200
      Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-29 06:30 +0100
        Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2015-04-29 15:14 +0000
          Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2015-04-29 15:53 +0000
      Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2015-04-29 11:33 +0000
        Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-04-29 06:51 -0500
          Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2015-04-29 13:07 +0000
            Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-04-29 09:15 -0500
          Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2015-05-22 08:05 +0000
            Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? Lucas Levrel <lucas.levrel@u-pec.fr> - 2015-05-22 15:38 +0200
        Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2015-05-09 19:41 -0400
      Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? Andreas Kohlbach <apr15.7.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2015-04-29 18:09 -0400
        Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-04-30 01:02 +0200
          Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? Andreas Kohlbach <may15.7.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2015-05-02 16:28 -0400
            Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? Chris <cmilnec@spam.net> - 2015-05-04 03:40 +0000
              Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2015-05-04 11:23 +0000
              Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? Andreas Kohlbach <may15.7.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2015-05-05 16:45 -0400
                Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-05-06 00:21 +0200
                Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? Andreas Kohlbach <may15.7.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2015-05-06 17:07 -0400
            Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? Bill Marcum <bill.marcum57@gmail.com> - 2015-05-06 03:22 -0400
              Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2015-05-08 21:30 +0000
                Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? Andreas Kohlbach <may15.7.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2015-05-09 16:28 -0400
  Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-04-29 06:56 -0500
    Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldi@notaserver.com> - 2015-04-29 13:00 -0500

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