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Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles?

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Aragorn wrote on 29. April 2015:
>
> On systems with a kernel mode-setting driver ─ i.e. "intel", "radeon" or 
> "nouveau" ─ the virtual console's resolution will by default be the same 
> as that of the X server.  On systems with a proprietary graphics driver 
> ─ e.g. fglrx or nvidia ─ the virtual console will either be in a 
> resolution set via GRUB or LILO directly, or perhaps as a parameter to a 
> console framebuffer driver such as vesafb, and on the command line for 
> the pertinent kernel ─ in LILO, this would be in the kernel's "append" 
> line.

I run a budget radeon GPU (APU actually; hybrid with an AMD CPU). a
"nomodeset" passed to the kernel on boot has no effect.

Is there a way to get the "old classic" (like it was on most Linuxes
prior 2000) 80x25 character tty with the low (might have been 640x400?)
resolution back?

And right, when I tried the fglrx driver instead, the console was indeed as I
want it to be with the radeon now.
-- 
Andreas

I use a Unix based operating system, which means I get laid almost as often as I
have to reboot my computer.

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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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