Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:32:58 -0300 | From | "Tomas M." <> | Subject | Re: Font selection with i915 |
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since 2.6.32 you can change the resolution with video=VGA-1:640x480 boot parameter and emulate the old behaviour.
On 01/20/2010 05:39 PM, Alan Stern wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Corbin Simpson wrote: > > >> FYI the legacy non-KMS path (nomodeset) is deprecated in kernel and >> was recently dropped from the X driver. You should be able to use >> fbset to change the resolution of your fbcon though. >> > I tried fbset, and it was distinctly unsuccessful. When I ran "fbset > 640x480-60", the general appearance of the screen did not change but > all new text got squeezed into the upper-left corner in an unreadable > form. > > It's not clear what mode I should specify. The output from "fbset" is > rather unhelpful (I didn't save the exact output but this is close): > > mode: "1280x1024-0" > D: 0 MHz H: 0 kHz V: 0 Hz > geometry: 1280 1024 1280 1024 32 > timings: -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 > rgba: 8/16,8/8,8/0,0/0 > > Alan Stern > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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