Re: Console Font Size? Resolved

2009-11-16 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:24:49AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > What is the relation between consolechars, charset and the > /etc/console-tools/config file? > > On boot up the console characters are hard to read without glasses. > The command consolechars -d changes to a very bold font. > Th

Re: Console Font Size?

2009-11-11 Thread jagginess
Thomas H. George wrote: What is the relation between consolechars, charset and the /etc/console-tools/config file? On boot up the console characters are hard to read without glasses. The command consolechars -d changes to a very bold font. The man page for charset indicates the default font i

Re: Console Font Size?

2009-11-11 Thread Wayne
Thomas H. George wrote: What is the relation between consolechars, charset and the /etc/console-tools/config file? On boot up the console characters are hard to read without glasses. The command consolechars -d changes to a very bold font. The man page for charset indicates the default font i

Re: Console font size change on xorg exit [RESOLVED]

2009-03-20 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> Quoth Matthew Smith at 2009-03-18 08:36... > >The issue is this: > > > >* Boot machine. > >* Console font size is sensible. > >* Run xorg (startx). > >* Close xorg. > >* Console font size is now enormous on all TTYs to the point of being > >unusable. (Have to reboot to be able to work again.) O

Re: Console font size change on xorg exit [RESOLVED]

2009-03-19 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Matthew Smith at 2009-03-18 08:36... The issue is this: * Boot machine. * Console font size is sensible. * Run xorg (startx). * Close xorg. * Console font size is now enormous on all TTYs to the point of being unusable. (Have to reboot to be able to work again.) It seems that the proble

Re: Console font size change on xorg exit

2009-03-18 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Thomas H. George at 2009-03-18 23:44... consolechars -d I have a much minor problem, a console font with some confusing characters is installed on bootup (Lenny). With console-tools installed the command consolechars -d switches to a font I like better. Thanks for that suggestion. I do

Re: Console font size change on xorg exit

2009-03-18 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 08:36:51AM +1030, Matthew Smith wrote: > Hi Folks > > This is an issue that I've seen at time on various distros that I have > found mildly annoying. Now close to completing the configuration of my > new Debian installation, I'm upgrading this from "mildly annoying" to

Re: Console font size change on xorg exit

2009-03-17 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Chris Jones wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 07:49:10PM EDT, Dave Witbrodt wrote: To which "framebuffer lists" do you refer? I have some framebuffer issues of my own that I would like to discuss with knowledgeable people, but I don't know where to look or subscribe. You can subscribe - or

Re: Console font size change on xorg exit

2009-03-17 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 07:49:10PM EDT, Dave Witbrodt wrote: > To which "framebuffer lists" do you refer? I have some framebuffer > issues of my own that I would like to discuss with knowledgeable > people, but I don't know where to look or subscribe. You can subscribe - or browse the arch

Re: Console font size change on xorg exit

2009-03-17 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Douglas A. Tutty at 2009-03-18 10:59... Two questions: Thanks for your reply. 1. Does this still happen if your kernel command line has vga=normal? (I'm assuming that you're using a framebuffer), and if you don't use a special font? Yes it does still happen with vga=normal. I do

Re: Console font size change on xorg exit

2009-03-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 08:36:51AM +1030, Matthew Smith wrote: > This is an issue that I've seen at time on various distros that I have > found mildly annoying. Now close to completing the configuration of my > new Debian installation, I'm upgrading this from "mildly annoying" to > "serious nui

Re: Console font size change on xorg exit

2009-03-17 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Chris Jones wrote: .. oh bugger.. I meant the framebuffer lists, naturally. To which "framebuffer lists" do you refer? I have some framebuffer issues of my own that I would like to discuss with knowledgeable people, but I don't know where to look or subscribe. Dave W. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Console font size change on xorg exit

2009-03-17 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 07:12:50PM EDT, Chris Jones wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 06:06:51PM EDT, Matthew Smith wrote: > > Hi Folks > > > > This is an issue that I've seen at time on various distros that I have > > found mildly annoying. Now close to completing the configuration of my > > ne

Re: Console font size change on xorg exit

2009-03-17 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 06:06:51PM EDT, Matthew Smith wrote: > Hi Folks > > This is an issue that I've seen at time on various distros that I have > found mildly annoying. Now close to completing the configuration of my > new Debian installation, I'm upgrading this from "mildly annoying" to >

Re: console font size

2004-01-18 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:02:13PM +0100, konf wrote: > > P> You could also try svgatextmode, which doesn't require framebuffer or > P> playing around with things at boot. Unfortunately the author seems to have > P> given up on it some time ago so it mostly only supports older graphics > P> cards.

Re: console font size

2004-01-18 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 02:13:24PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:36:23PM +0800, Ryan Mackay wrote: > > Sometime near Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 09:51:18AM +0100, konf wrote: > > > hello, > > > when i boot my debian box [no X windows installed) i see too big > > > console fonts.h

Re: console font size

2004-01-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
konf wrote: hello, when i boot my debian box [no X windows installed) i see too big console fonts.how could i reduce font size ? thanks in advance You get very nice consolefonts with SvgaTextMode. It will depend on your video card because the package is no longer supported, but is in all Debian

Re: console font size

2004-01-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:36:23PM +0800, Ryan Mackay wrote: > Sometime near Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 09:51:18AM +0100, konf wrote: > > hello, > > when i boot my debian box [no X windows installed) i see too big > > console fonts.how could i reduce font size ? > > thanks in advance > > > > At the lil

Re: console font size

2004-01-18 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 09:51:18AM +0100, konf wrote: > hello, > when i boot my debian box [no X windows installed) i see too big > console fonts.how could i reduce font size ? > thanks in advance > At the lilo boot: prompt Find out the name of your Linux kernel image (Linux by default