[plug] Console size control

[Matt Kemner]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 navarre at omen.net.au wrote:

> May I be informed as to which program/ setting controls the rows and columns
> of the system console. That is to say when this system boots it starts in
>  80 x 25 lines and changes to 50 somthing lines, this is good and I would 
> like to change my system at home.

You will probably want to look at either svgatextmode (there is a debian
package) or better yet, if you have a supported GFX card, have a look at
the framebuffer support in the kernel.
(In fact if you have a Matrox G200, like me, you'll find it is not
supported by svgatextmode, but is supported very well by matroxfb)

Also, if you have a PII-class cpu, fb will automatically set up the
required mtrr's. (makes for a HUGE difference in speed)

 - Matt