Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Console handling (was: Re: Let's vote for PnP on 2.2) | Date | Sun, 14 Dec 1997 10:09:24 -0800 (PST) |
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> > > > Linux has never had different number of lines on different VTs. > > Are you sure? There used to be a comment about this in > drivers/char/console.c. > It said the feature was removed because `it's messy to have all consoles of > potentially different sizes'. >
If so, it has been that not all the lines on the screen was used. Linux has *never* been able to change the actual line count on different screens.
-hpa
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