On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 09:46:56PM +0100, A. Lucien Meyers wrote:
> >> 2. 127 columns X 60 lines or something similar (80 x 50 is much too
> >>    big) with a high refresh rate
> >> 
> >> 3. pretty legible font for 2, preferably iso-8859-15 (AKA Latin 9 or 0)
> >> 
> >> 4. cyan on black default colours on all consoles
> >> 
> >> 5. 11 usable consoles, number 12 reserved for X (got 8 so far)
> >> 
> >> 6. get terminal set up to map function keys pc-like, e. g. when using
> >>    midnight commander?
> >> 
> >> Guidance to detailed docs and other advice much appreciated.
> >
> > see the wscons and wsconsctl manual pages
> 
> Had already printed out these manpages before posting above. Did not
> find infos sufficient for me (newbie) to answer above questions. Verbose
> manpages are still very terse for me. What for example must one put into
> which config files to get the resolution in 2?


Well, I'm not familiar with this part of the kernel, but maybe it's just
the driver that doesn't support it, or maybe it's not  possible with a
generic VGA driver ...

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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