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SubjectRe: default framebuffer


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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