Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!panix!not-for-mail From: ruben safir Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles? Date: Sat, 09 May 2015 19:41:42 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: www.mrbrklyn.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1431214902 25068 96.57.23.82 (9 May 2015 23:41:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 23:41:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:14748 On 04/29/2015 07:33 AM, Kenny McCormack wrote: > Understood, but I'd like to know in greater detail, since, as I mentioned, > I have two identical systems [*] that display different widths. > > [*] Identical hardware-wise for sure - should be (at least almost) > identical OS-wise. I need to do further checking to find out if there are > any observable OS differences (such that might account for the difference > in the VC widths). i have a problem with this on my fit/pc. The virtual terminals only cover about 2/3rd of my screen space. I use it as a webserver, so i never cared enough to actually fix it but I think the problem is with the intel video driver.