On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:51:55AM -0600, Mike Miller wrote: > Which reminds me to ask a question: Is there a way to make the font > smaller after I do Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get a text screen? I guess that is > actually called "console mode". Maybe there is no interactive way to do > it, but I'll settle for a config file. I guess the answer is here... > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=200834&highlight=boot+console+font > > ...or that was was for earlier versions. So what is the answer for 8.10 > and what fonts have you all used successfully? Yes, you want the vga= boot option. Set it to 'vga=ask' to get a list of modes your kernel supports, and then experiment (I recommend setting it manually at each boot so that it is not hard-coded into your Grub or LILO config, so that if it doesn't work, you can simply reboot to get back to a working system). Gabe -- Gabe Turner gabe at msi.umn.edu UNIX System Administrator, University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute http://www.msi.umn.edu