On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:35:15 +0200 Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sb, 19 feb 11, 11:09:06, Joe Riel wrote: > > > > An advantage for me of the noveau driver, besides restoring the > > beep in an xterm, was that the console font (in a virtual terminal) > > is much nicer. I had tried various configurations of the console > > font with the nvidia driver, but it never looked good---too big and > > kind of fuzzy. The console font with the nouveau driver is sharp, > > reasonably small, and didn't require any configuration on my part. > > > > I don't use the console much, but when I have to its nice to > > be able to comfortably read it. > > First step would be to use the correct resolution for your monitor, I > use this in /etc/default/grub > > GRUB_GFXMODE=1680x1050 > GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep I ran vbeinfo in grub to list the available resolutions, and used the highest one shown. The result wasn't as nice as what I get with nouveau; maybe I didn't spend enough time configuring it, but I went through several iterations with various fonts. None of them looked particularly nice. > > Unfortunately I am affected by #575624 :( > > Regards, > Andrei -- Joe Riel -- 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/20110221074821.76123270@gauss
