[plug] Video mode

[John Breen]

Nope.  No SVATextMode.

Turns out, there was a block in rc.sysinit, which runs /sbin/setsysfont,
which in turn runs /usr/bin/setfont.  The setfont was effectively being
called with no parameters, and therefore loaded an 8x16 font - hence
80x25 text mode.  Changing the call to use an 8x8 font where no
parameters were specified fixed the problem.

<PLUG plug mode on> That's what I like about mailing lists and user
groups - someone usually knows the answer, and if they don't, at least
they can point you in the right direction to find it.

Cheers,


John

John Breen
Programmer
United Construction Pty Ltd

(08) 9499-0472
john.breen at unitedconstruction.com.au


	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Peter Caffin [SMTP:pc at it.net.au]
	Sent:	Wednesday, 9 June 1999 6:43
	To:	'plug at linux.org.au'
	Subject:	Re: [plug] Video mode

	On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, John Breen wrote:
	> What happens is that it set the resolution, goes through its
processing
	> at startup, and immediately after turning on quotas (which it
shouldn't
	> be doing anyhow), the screen drops back to 80x25.

	Check to see if you've got SVGATextMode installed. If so, that's
the
	likely culprit. To fix it, you can either remove the package or
edit
	/etc/TextConfig and skip to DefaultMode and choose the one
you're after
	or even grep the /etc/rc.boot/* scripts to find the line using
either
	`SVGATextMode` or `stm` (its alias).

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