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[Liam Proven]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Grub2 setup has nothing to do with the virtual consoles; their fonts
>>> are set through console-setup.
>>
>> I beg to differ. Before I recommended it, I tried it on my own
>> machine, and it *has* changed the resolution of the Linux console,
>> from standard VGA text mode - 80×25 characters - to the full native
>> res of my LCD, 1024×768, which translates to 128 characters across by
>> 48 lines down. Same font @ higher res = more characters.
>>
>> I was not attempting to describe how to change the font; I was
>> describing how to change the resolution, and the advice I gave was
>> both factual and accurate.
>
> Not for the VTs.

Yes, for the VTs. It has changed the text-mode resolution on /dev/tty1
through to /dev/tty6.

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