Mistakes & Lies F15

[Tom H]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Lars Eighner <topper at larseighner.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Craig White wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps you have some setup that defeats automatic detection of the
>> available modes.
>>
>> are you following this?
>>
>> http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
>
> This seems to be about graphics modes, not text modes.
>
> I'm asking about setting text modes in a virtual console (aka virtual
> terminal) - not about running a terminal in xorg.  Xorg is not an operating
> system -- it has nothing to do with what I am trying to do.  I want to run
> command line applications at the command line, not in an Xterm. I want to be
> in text mode: 80 columns, 25 lines, 16 color, using a VGA font -- I don't
> want something drawing a picture sort of like that in graphics mode.
>
> Vesa is for sort of drawing a picture of what it thinks text mode might look
> like -- if text mode was tiny, illegible, and all et up with unicode.  Vesa
> is not VGA.  There has never been a graphics font that can put 4000
> characters (80x25) on a screen legibly, which is what VGA can do.

1. The link provided by Craig isn't about xterms.

2. AFAIK, with KMS, there are only graphic modes available.