On 2010-08-05 19:26 +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 05 Aug 2010, Thomas H. George wrote: >> > >> I followed these instructions chosing the Terminus font and a character >> height of 32 and then rebooted. The boot screen and initial scripts >> were easy to read, actually larger than I need BUT >> >> About half way through the boot up the scripts changed back to the tiny >> fonts. There was a line saying consolechars can only load fonts with a >> height of 16, try installing setfont. Apt-get search found setfont in >> kbd-compat but apt-get install reported that the latest version of >> kbd-compat was already installed. >> >> What now? >> >> Tom >> > > Isn't this the KMS issue? I solved it by editing > /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf, as suggested by > /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-radeon.
This is not a solution but rather a workaround that may stop working at some time in the future when xserver-xorg-video-radeon starts to _require_ KMS. Beside, it already won't work for Nvidia cards if you want to use the Nouveau X driver. So far, Thomas has not told anything about his graphics card. > The change to tiny font half-way through booting was exactly the symptom > I had before doing the above. The solution is to use a bigger font, as I had tried to explain. 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/87aap1ymgi....@turtle.gmx.de
