On some of the machines we’re maintaining, the line
stty rows=50
works fine. On a another machine (HP Kayak XA workstation) the
same line causes the screen to go blank, forcing a reboot.
This unit has integrated video (doh!) is there a way to make this
work? What is it that differentiates video cards with respect to
this feature?
I tried starting Dev.ansi with / without -Q option; no dice.
Norman Lorrain <lorrain@.sedsystems.ca> wrote:
On some of the machines we’re maintaining, the line
stty rows=50works fine. On a another machine (HP Kayak XA workstation) the
same line causes the screen to go blank, forcing a reboot.This unit has integrated video (doh!) is there a way to make this
work? What is it that differentiates video cards with respect to
this feature?I tried starting Dev.ansi with / without -Q option; no dice.
The command you’re issuing fiddles with `standard’ VGA registers
to put the video card into 50 line mode.
You probably get the same thing if you just do >
and < . If it doesn’t work, or does bad things, then
I’d say that the card in question is not `standard’ VGA.