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Re: 40x15 char display help?

hurley bryan wrote:
> 
> I need to display 40x15 chars on a vga display of 640x480, either by using
> a whole new graphics routine ie svgalib or something, or just use some
> kind of tsr that takes the first 40x15 chars in an 80x25 display and make
> each pixel bigger by a factor of two.
> 
> This is so I can read text on an M1 display at 320x200 with the same
> letters as normal 80x25 which uses the standard resolution for such.
> 
> dos first, then linux, as I am at a space premium at the moment.
> 
> hints, leads or solutions would all be greatly appreciated.
> 
> thanks
> Bryan Hurley

did you try changing your terminal font/resolution? if you add the line

vga=ask

in your lilo.conf file it will give you various video modes to boot with,
generally there is a 40x25 mode which works quite well with the M1's display. 
You may need to enter 'scan' when prompted to choose a video mode to boot linux
in.  'scan' forces a video probe to find other valid display resolutions.  There
are a couple of threads about this in the archive at wearable.ml.org.

cheers!

-Paul