tty screen mode

[marhleet]

well, I just found about shift-pgup
which saves some stress.....
trying to read
ls /etc
where the output is way long for the screen

but, I'd like to change the screen from the standard 80x25 to 80x43....
I can set this mode during boot up, but after loading (I think) /etc/modules the screen changes back to 80x25

[eco2geek]

You can also pipe the output of the "ls" command into a pager. For example:

ls /etc | less

Then you can use the Page Up/Page Down keys to scroll through the output, the "Home" and "End" keys to go to the beginning and the end, the up and down arrows to scroll one line at a time, and "q" to quit. ("man" usually uses "less" as its pager.)

[Dave_Bechtel]

--If you're setting ' vga=ext ' or whatever at boot, you'll have to go thru /etc/rcS.d and the other runlevels (or whatever your default runlevel is - check /etc/inittab) and find out what's setting the console font. Then comment out the part of the script that changes it.

--For me, on hdinstall, it was /etc/rcS.d/S48console-screen.sh -> ../init.d/console-screen.sh

--I've noticed the live-cd overriding the vga= boot parm as well; you might want to submit this to Klaus as a bug.

well, I just found about shift-pgup
which saves some stress.....
trying to read
ls /etc
where the output is way long for the screen

but, I'd like to change the screen from the standard 80x25 to 80x43....
I can set this mode during boot up, but after loading (I think) /etc/modules the screen changes back to 80x25