Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:02:49 +0100 | From | Ken Moffat <> | Subject | Re: default framebuffer |
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On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:04:43AM -0400, Nick Bowler wrote: > Hi Russell, > > On 2012-04-15 21:37 -0700, Russell Whitaker wrote: > > > > What should I do to keep the screen at 80x25? > > Load a bigger console font. For example, the Terminus font package > http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/ includes some nice console fonts > in a variety of sizes. Try > > setfont ter-132b > > to start. Your distribution probably provides a convenient way to set > the console font at boot. > > Hope that helps,
Alternatively, add video=something to the commandline in your bootloader. I've got a 1600x1200 screen. On some machines I use my 12x22 font, on the others I use my 8x16 font with video=1024x768 ¹ Oh, and on my netbook I use the 12x22 for something like 95x30. But I also guess that exactly 80x25 is not necessarily critical, provided the characters are legible.
I've no idea which video= values work, and I'm using a lot more than 80x25, but perhaps video=800x600 or video=640x480 (assuming, of course, that you have a 4:3 screen and not the now-common 16:10) with a small font will be in the right area.
¹ LatGrkCyr - they are in kbd as of 1.15.3, but there's no telling whether you will like it - people using a light background almost certainly will hate it.
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