Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:09:58 -0500 (EST) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: Font selection with i915 |
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On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, James Simmons wrote:
> > > When Fedora 12 loads i915 during initramfs probing on my system, the > > driver automatically installs a tiny 160x64 font. How can I prevent it > > from doing this, or tell it to use a larger 80x25 font instead? > > > > Is this documented anywhere? > > Not really. Here is how you enable larger fonts. Configure your kernel. Go > into the Graphics support menu. This the the menu that has the > DRI/Framebuffer and backlight options. You will see a "Console display > driver support" option. Select it and you will have a new menu. You will > see the option "Select compiled-in fonts". Enable that and select the font > you want. Most likely it will be the Sun 12x22 font. Build your kernel. > > Their might be one more setup to do. Some distros like to load a console > font at boot up. Depending on the distro if that is the case you will have > to disable it.
It turns out that preventing the mode switch is easier. Finding it took a certain amount of digging, but the "nomodeset" kernel parameter prevents the console from leaving normal VGA mode. If only it were documented...
Alan Stern
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