at last! pretty console fonts! by jtr · linux - 24 March 2004, 11:08

I have been lusting for pretty console fonts since first trying Knoppix. I work a fair amount from the console (especially with mutt, my mail client of choice) so I have been wanting to be able to see more at a time than the standard 80×25 character default resolution would allow. After hours of googling, I stumbled across an option I had not known: video=blah. I had tried appending ‘vga=0×318’ to my kernel boot line in grub to give me 1024×768x24bit color, but this option would only lock my screen. Via one of the links my myriad google searches showed, I came across this option to add to my kernel boot line: ‘video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=0×318’. I tried it. It works. My console is now beautiful. I even have two full-color penguins watching me as I boot. I do not yet know why this works, but I will learn. Linux requires this of me.

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  1. screenshots?
    — topher    Mar 24, 12:53 PM    #
  2. Ah, so you have a dual processor system, huh?

    You know, now that you have a framebuffer you can make a nifty boot splash screen frame to surround the boot messages. :-)
    — Timothy R. Butler    Mar 26, 12:39 PM    #
  3. Yep. I have an Abit BP6 dual-Celeron board with two 466MHz processors, 256MB RAM, and a Radeon 32MB DDR video card.
    — john-thomas    Mar 26, 10:16 PM    #