From: Howlin' Bob (gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU)
Date: 09/06/93 

From: gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Howlin' Bob)
Subject: Re: [Q] video modes on virtual consoles
Date: 6 Sep 1993 05:56:59 GMT

stefan@donald.ruhr.de (Stefan Joachim) writes:

>Is it possible that virtual consoles may have different vidoe modes ?
>For example: <ALT+F1> = 80x25 chars and <ALT+F2> = 100x40 chars ??

It's theoretically possible, but difficult to do. The code to change
video modes varies too much from card to card; putting it all in the
kernel would result in too much bloat.