On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 09:12:20AM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> Edit:
> kernel /boot/blah-blah-kernel root=/my/device ro quiet splash
>
> Add:
> vga=HEX
>
>
> Size 640x400 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024 1600x1200
> +
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 09:29:30AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I gave up and installed kbd. On boot up the initial font was large.
> About half way through the boot up the scripts changed to tiny fonts and
> then after a half dozen lines switched back to large fonts. The console
> is now ver
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 04:07:26PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 02:49:48PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Thomas H. George
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't understand grub's menu.lst. It begins with several entries
> > > and the beginning of the
On 06 Aug 2010, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> >
>
> Doesn't seem to work here. The small font I can live with, but if I
> enable KMS another problem appears. Initially the console type face is
> large. If I start X and go back to the console with ctrl-alt-F1 the type
> face is small. If I do this a s
On 05 Aug 2010, Javier Vasquez wrote:
> On 8/5/10, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> > On 8/5/2010 12:54 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> >> The solution is to use a bigger font, as I had tried to explain.
> >
> > Yes, that was your solution, until he explained (which you merrily
> > missed apparently) that even t
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 02:49:48PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Thomas H. George wrote:
> >
> > I don't understand grub's menu.lst. It begins with several entries
> > and the beginning of the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST and within this the
> > start of the default options list
On 2010-08-05 20:08 +0200, Javier Vasquez wrote:
> That's right. Actually I always look for full resolution on console.
> Before KMS, for some cards I had to load the corresponding module
> through /etc/modules and for some of those, I also had to provide the
> resolution parameters through /etc/
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Thomas H. George wrote:
>
> I don't understand grub's menu.lst. It begins with several entries
> and the beginning of the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST and within this the
> start of the default options list. Within this list is
>
> #kopt=root=UUID= where is the
On 8/5/10, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> On 8/5/2010 12:54 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> The solution is to use a bigger font, as I had tried to explain.
>
> Yes, that was your solution, until he explained (which you merrily
> missed apparently) that even though he used your "fix" the font resets
> back to
On 8/5/10, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-08-05 19:26 +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
>> On 05 Aug 2010, Thomas H. George wrote:
>>> >
>>> I followed these instructions chosing the Terminus font and a character
>>> height of 32 and then rebooted. The boot screen and initial scripts
>>> were easy
On 8/5/2010 12:54 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> The solution is to use a bigger font, as I had tried to explain.
Yes, that was your solution, until he explained (which you merrily
missed apparently) that even though he used your "fix" the font resets
back to a small size a little ways into the boot.
On 2010-08-05 19:26 +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 05 Aug 2010, Thomas H. George wrote:
>> >
>> I followed these instructions chosing the Terminus font and a character
>> height of 32 and then rebooted. The boot screen and initial scripts
>> were easy to read, actually larger than I need BU
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 09:12:20AM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> On 8/5/2010 8:59 AM, Thomas H. George wrote:
> >I followed these instructions chosing the Terminus font and a character
> >height of 32 and then rebooted. The boot screen and initial scripts
> >were easy to read, actually larger tha
On 05 Aug 2010, Thomas H. George wrote:
> >
> I followed these instructions chosing the Terminus font and a character
> height of 32 and then rebooted. The boot screen and initial scripts
> were easy to read, actually larger than I need BUT
>
> About half way through the boot up the scripts chan
On 8/5/2010 8:59 AM, Thomas H. George wrote:
I followed these instructions chosing the Terminus font and a character
height of 32 and then rebooted. The boot screen and initial scripts
were easy to read, actually larger than I need BUT
About half way through the boot up the scripts changed back
On 2010-08-05 15:59 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote:
> About half way through the boot up the scripts changed back to the tiny
> fonts. There was a line saying consolechars can only load fonts with a
> height of 16, try installing setfont. Apt-get search found setfont in
> kbd-compat but apt-get in
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 04:36:49PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-08-04 15:57 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote:
>
> > After installing linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 the console fonts are so
> > small I must use reading glasses to make them out. I have experimented
> > with the consolechars -H 16
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