On 2010-08-05 20:08 +0200, Javier Vasquez wrote: > That's right. Actually I always look for full resolution on console. > Before KMS, for some cards I had to load the corresponding module > through /etc/modules and for some of those, I also had to provide the > resolution parameters through /etc/modprobe.d/<card_module>.conf. KMS > seems to always look for full resolution, so I've removed the stuff > from modules and modprobe.conf. Notice some times uvesafb was the > only alternative to get required resolution, :-)
I remember the times when I fiddled around with uvesafb on my laptop which has i915 graphics. "Of course" the crappy BIOS does not even support the native resolution of the display, so I had to "fix" that with 915resolution first. I even wrote custom scripts that did this from the initramfs to reduce the number of video mode changes. KMS was a big relief for me. > When you have bigger resolution on console, you need bigger fonts. > The recommendation Sven provided is the correct one (dpkg-reconfigure > console-setup). However console-tools doesn't handle some fonts sizes > for some particular fonts, and thus, the solution is just to use > original kbd instead (which seems to support more fonts sizes). This > has been required even before KMS showed up, unless you didn't care > about getting full/bigger resolution on console... I ditched console-tools when it suddenly started to switch to tty6 upon boot¹. Moving to kbd solved that problem and some others as well. > As an additional suggestion, I recommend using console-terminus (if > you want you can also try xfonts-terminus), so you select it as well > when running dpkg-reconfigure console-setup, :-) I did not mention console-terminus because console-setup already depends on it, but it has some nice fonts indeed. Sven ¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570338 -- 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/87y6ckyj6a....@turtle.gmx.de
