Can't get BiCon to work ! Followup

[Ahmed El-Mahmoudy <aelmahmoudy at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

as-salamu alaykom,

  I tried bicon again, and I found the following:
  
  1. I beleive the reason that bicon uses half the screen is because I 
  set my virtual console to be 800x600 which gives me more than 25 lines, 
  when I counted the lines that bicon uses (in that half screen), I 
  found that it used 25 lines exactly, so probably this is the problem.
  Btw, setting the virtual screen resolution can either be done at 
  booting, by setting "vga=NUMBER" in lilo or grub configuration.
  or after booting using fbset command.
  
  2. the only program that I succeeded to make it display arabic with 
  bicon is ELinks, and that was after setting "UTF-8 I/O" option in the 
  Setup->Terminal Options menu.
  
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 10:53:45AM +0300, Ahmed El-Mahmoudy wrote:
> as-salamu alaykom,
> 
>   OK, I tried bicon under Ubuntu 0.5, and it still won't work for
>   virtual console, it doesn't give me that error message that it gave me 
>   under Mandriva 2006. But it said something about it is being better to 
>   use consolechars.