On 2010-05-24 16:59 +0200, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 16:28 Sun 23 May , Todd A. Jacobs wrote: >> After a recent kernel update, my linux terminal is now displaying >> teeny-tiny text. How do I set the default terminal back to 80x25? >> > > I had this on my system as well. I also had trouuble when tried to reinstall > the > binary nvidia driver for my nvidia card. It would not work. > > I mucked around and discovered that there is default install of the nouveau > driver in the > new kernel. > > So the solution to both of the problems (tiny font on boot + failure to > install non-free > binary nvidia kernel using the NVIDIA non free linux drivers) is to ban the > nouveau kernel module. > > The way to do this is > > put the line > > blacklist nouveau > > in the file > > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf > > then when you boot you will be in good shape.
Note that the latest nvidia-kernel-common package will do this for you (it puts the line into /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-common.conf). > The nouveau kernel module sets up a framebuffer for nvidia graphics cards > like ours. This is something which I actually like very much. The console-setup package can be used to pick up a bigger font if the default font is too small. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87632djplp....@turtle.gmx.de
