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12-04-2004, 08:01 AM	#1
bennethos Member Registered: Aug 2003 Location: Belgium Distribution: -- Slackware for servers -- Debian for desktops -- Posts: 124 Rep:	r50p thinkpad, Framebuffering, ati driver I installed the ati driver for firegl2 , works fine btw... what I would like to do is when I boot my debian to have smaller letters, now i configged my lilo to ask me which font size to use I always take 80x25 but it's sooooo big ! ... he always uses his VESA DRIVER... How can I Use a smaller font size in the shell ??? my firegl driver is a module ... it's not compiled in kernel, not possible by the way... thx for giving me some hints :-)

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