Setting Command line to 80 x 25 ascii mode

[Andrew Parker]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Sanjay Arora <sanjay.k.arora at gmail.com> wrote:
> Min
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> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:48 AM, stan <gryt2 at q.com> wrote:
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>> > How do I get my non-graphic console (I think its a getty terminal) in
>> > my display adapter's mode 0?
>>
>> As Tom said, you can't.  His suggestion of setting the font will work,
>> sort of, especially if you make the font bold.
>>
>> I asked this same question, 'How is it possible to set the console
>> resolution to a different value than the GUI?', and a developer told me
>> that it is not possible using nouveau (not sure about proprietary).
>> What I did is run with the old xv driver for nvidia, and add   nomodeset
>> vga=0x317     on the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst.  0x317 is
>> 110x40, I think 0x315 is 80x25.
>>
>> Your video hardware might not be nvidia, but this should give you some
>> ideas to try.
>>
>> In the GUI Ctl-Alt-Bksp  will flip through the available resolutions
>> (at least it does here).
>>
>
> Mine is an Intel motherboard with integrated Intel graphics chipset.
> vga=315 did not work...I tried that before vga=ask. What I am looking for is
> at least some way to reduce the resolution of the console (even if I have to
> reduce the resolution of the gui also)...maybe with a script run everytime
> going into console to reduce the resolution and another to increase the
> resolution back at the time of going into gui.
> Problem at the moment is getting 80x25 mode....regardless of what happens to
> the gui. After the kernel is booted, screen simply does not go into low
> resolution and the gui does not have options for that low resolution.
> I am looking for a way to run several legacy applications, recompiled on
> Linux and am willing to accept compromises.
> Thanks.
> Sanjay.
>

adding nomodeset to the kernel params on my laptop gives me 80x25 (and
the GUI appropriately ugly) on F15