> On 09/05/2009 02:43 PM, Paul Stear wrote: > > By the way does anybody know how to use a smaller font for the boot up > > screen? > > What monitor do you have? If it's a TFT, use its native resolution in > the kernel parameters. Though some widescreen resolutions aren't > supported by some graphics cards' VESA BIOSes, sadly.
actually, most of them are. I happily run with vesafb 1440x900x16 laptop display (vga=0x36a) and 1680x1050x32 monitor (kernel parameter vga=0x369 ) I had a tool that detects all VESA modes your card supports, but somehow can't recall what was its name. > > Another solution is to change the kernel font (in the kernel > configuration, somewhere in the console framebuffer settings) and > console font (/etc/conf.d/consolefont) since the kernel font will be > replaced after the kernel has booted an init is run. -- Dmitri Pogosyan Department of Physics Professor University of Alberta tel 1-780-492-2150 11322 - 89 Avenue fax 1-780-492-0714 Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G7, CANADA
