<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>Il giorno 05/feb/2012, alle ore 04.33, Jim Harris ha scritto:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><br>Re: Bug (feature!) in Tiger.<br><br>This is not a *Tiger* issue.<br>What I want to do is to set the screen resolution while within *OPEN FIRMWARE* so that the screen is easier to read.<br><br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Right. But you can do it from OS X…</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">What I am doing is this:<br><br>1. Perform the Macintosh "four-finger-salute". . . OPT - CMD - O - F . . . . to get into the Open Firmware editor.<br>(This is a very bad pun on Microsoft's "three-finger-salute" CTL - ALT - DEL)<br><br>2. Notice that the size of the displayed characters on the screen is very small.<br><br>3. Execute a "printenv" command to print the entire list of environment variables.<br><br>4. Notice that "screen-#columns" is set to "100"<br><br>5. Notice that "screen-#rows" is set to 40<br><br>6. Set "setenv screen-#columns 50" and "setenv screen-#rows 20" (essentially dividing both numbers in half)<br><br>7. Re-run the "printenv" and note that the values entered have "taken" also note that the screen-resolution has not changed.<br><br>8. Execute "shut-down" to write novram and power down the computer.<br><br>9. Restart as in #1 above.<br><br>10. Note two things:<br> a. The screen resolution within Open Firmware has not changed.<br> b. Executing a "printenv" shows that the values entered are still there.<br><br>I have not figured out a way to make the OPEN FIRMWARE screen text larger.<br><br>Any ideas?<br></span></blockquote><div>No, sorry, I have no idea about what screen-#rows/columns should actually do, nor I know an alternative.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><br>p.s. Ascii art would be both time-consuming and complicated to implement - especially within the confines of the ofboot.b file - to the point where it would be cheaper and easier to just go buy a monitor that is 2 x 1.125 meters in size! (laughing)<br><br></span></blockquote></div>You're probably right.</body></html>