On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:55:16AM -0700, maxim wexler wrote
> Hi group,
>
> The console fonts in my new LCD monitor are H-U-G-E.
> Attempts to shrink them by adding vga=xxx at the grub
> prompt after the kernel line has no effect.
In order to be able to do that, you have to enable it in the kernel.
In "make menuconfig" follow...
Device Drivers --->
Graphics support --->
Console display driver support --->
[*] Video mode selection support
Compiling the kernel that way, and booting from the new kernel,
enables you to select VGA modes... and you don't have to muck around
with framebuffer at all.
In addition to selecting VGA modes, you can also influence your
display by selecting different sized fonts. VGA defaults to 8x16 fonts,
which are huge. "vga=6" selects 8x8 CGA font on a 640x480 text console,
which gives 80 columns x 60 rows... but is rather hard to read.
I set "vga = 6". In /etc/conf.d/consolefont I have...
CONSOLEFONT="lat1-10"
640 x 480
The 8x10 pixel font gives --------- = 80 columns x 48 rows.
8 x 10
It is *MUCH* easier on the eyes than "vga = 1", which combines 8x8 CGA
font (bleagh) on a 640x400 pixel text console to give 80x50 text mode.
You can look in /usr/share/consolefonts to see what's available. You
can test various fonts by running setfont ("man setfont" for details).
Check http://www.waltdnes.org/tips_and_tricks/textmodes.html for more
details on how and why console fonts work the way they do on x86 systems.
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