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Re: prompt falls out of the screen
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Marco Gerards |
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Re: prompt falls out of the screen |
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Sun, 16 Jan 2005 17:03:29 +0000 |
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Danilo Segan <dsegan@gmx.net> writes:
>> How I do this while grub is loading I do not know.
>> Any suggestion out there?
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> I believe you need to hack on GNU Mach to add such support yourself.
> I.e. the answer to your question is probably *you can't*.
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> OTOH, there're other video modes which are probably supported on GNU
> Mach itself, such as 80x50, even though they use the same image width
> and height in pixels (aka "resolution", 640x400 for VGA text modes I
> think), only smaller glyphs (8x8 vs. 8x16), making them look shitty.
> I don't know how to activate them—perhaps someone else can chip in
> with some tips?
IIRC the 9x14 font looks quite nice. Just don't use the Mach
console. Changing fonts is easy with the Hurd console:
http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Hurd/HurdConsole
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Marco