On Thursday 03 February 2011 06:07:55 Walter Dnes wrote:
> Back around 2000, we still had CRT monitors, not LCDs. The cheaper
> monitors shimmered badly in GUI mode and were hard on my eyes. One of
> the factors that drove me to linux back then was that, except for web
> browsing and spreadsheets, I could do most of my work in a true text
> console (and I don't mean an xterm, either). I love sharp crisp
> textmode fonts on a text console. I used to do email and write code in
> text consoles, and {CTRL-ALT-F10} to GUI for browsing (yes, I tweaked my
> /etc/inittab to allow 10 consoles).
>
> Recently, however, video drivers for both Intel and ATI have switched
> over to some brain-dead framebuffer mode that renders regular
> consolefonts microscopic. Also the line lengths are ridiculously long.
> E.g. on my 1920x1200 LCD monitor, an 8x16 font gives 75 rows of 240
> columns each. On my 14" notebook (1366x768) it's 48 rows of 170 columns
> each. The largest consolefont I can find in /usr/share/consolefonts/ is
> sun12x22. It's large enough to be at least readable, but I don't like
> the way the font looks, and it's still too small for my taste, 54 rows
> of 160 columns each on the LCD monitor.
>
> My questions, in decreasing order of preference, are...
>
> Plan a) Is there a way to have a real text console? I know that I can
> have 2 X sessions on tty10 and tty11 with different resolutions, and
> colour depths. Is there a way to set tty1..tty9 to 640x480 *IN TEXT
> MODE*, so that lat1-?? fonts would look normal, without killing the
> ability to have X run at 1920x1200?Yes. Leave KMS enabled and add the parameter: video=1024x768 (or whatever suits your screen and taste) to your kernel line. You shouldn't need vesafb, uvesa or any other drivers to achieve this. Read more here: /Documentation/fb/modedb.txt I think that if you revert to a framebuffer driver then you must add nomodeset on your kernel line. -- Regards, Mick
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