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Not exactly, it's a application run under a console to reconfig the vid.
hardware to run different modes. Allowing the console to utilize the SVGA
portion of a video card and allowing higher res and larger fonts to be
used, etc.
From the man page:
SVGATextMode provides a means to seriously enhance the looks of your Linux
text consoles, by re-programming the (S)VGA hardware. It uses a
configuration file similar to the one the XFree86 X-windows server uses
(Xconfig or XF86Config) to set up better looking textmodes. (=higher
resolution, larger font size, higher display refresh...).
It works independently of what text modes are allowed from the BIOS. In
theory, any text mode size is possible, as long as your VGA card is up to
the job. Whether it is or not, depends greatly on the chipset.
SVGATextMode can resize the console screen on the fly, without rebooting, to
any other size. The configuration file holds all the parameters needed for
the new mode.
Anyone? :)
Thanks again,
-Jim M.
> I tossed 'vga=ask' in my lilo.conf. Is that what you mean?
>
> > Has anyone here used SVGATextMode? I'm having a devil of a time getting
it
> > up and running for some reason.
-=-
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