Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:38:53 -0700 (PDT) | From | Russell Whitaker <> | Subject | Re: default framebuffer |
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2012, Ken Moffat wrote:
> 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.
Just now put video=640x480 in grub's menu.lst and I got a 80x30 screen. That's satisfactory, howeber will also try the larger font suggestion, too.
Thanks guys Russ > > 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. > > ken > -- > das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce >
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