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 10:40:22 -0800 (PST) |
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> > > > 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. > > > Maybe so in the kernel level - I still remember switching between 80x25 > "normal" console and 80x50 dosemu... that's just a font change, no timing > changes... (nowadays using svgatextmode - different modes for different > consoles would prolly be quite complicated with something like that, right?;)
DOSEMU is different -- it uses the console in "graphics" mode (meaning "I'm a user space program and I'm going to manage the console myself.") DOSEMU can call the video BIOS.
-hpa
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