> 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, but may have non-standard codes. I run laptop 1440x900x16 (vga=0x36a) and desktop monitor at 1680x1050x32 (vga=0x369). vbespy from the bottom of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions allows the detection of supported VESA modes on your card. Be careful to convert VESA mode codes reported by vbespy to kernel codes that vga= parameter takes. Transformation is to add 512, and, optionally convert to hex. i.e for me vbespy reports 1680x1050 (8,8,8) vesa mode as 361 (decimal). Kernel mode is 361+512=873=0x369 in hex > > 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
