Re: [SLUG] console wackiness

From: logan (thelogan@allyourbase-arebelongto.us)
Date: Thu Feb 28 2008 - 19:07:37 EST


On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 15:43 -0500, Eben King wrote:
> Hey folks. Whenever I go to text mode (beside or without X, not a terminal
> emulator), the bottom 4-5 lines is cut off. The text area is normally
> sized, just the "virtual screen" extends several lines below my
> physical screen. If I run "/etc/init.d/console-screen.sh" the letters
> become smaller and everything is visibile. The right monitor shows
> garbage at that point, but that's a small price to pay for being able
> to see everything.
>
> Why doesn't this work at boot time? What can I do to correct it?
>

Maybe it isn't firing off the /etc/init.d/console-screen.sh based on the
system runlevel you use to start the machine. I don't know what distro
you are using, but on my Debian boxes I can adjust what starts and stops
with update-rc.d

Logan

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