Re: smaller fonts on boot

2005-06-17 Thread Luca Botti
A small suggestion about framebuffer in console mode: 1) There is a bug open if you compile the kernel (2.6.9+)yourself; you have to comple it as a module, and then load the module via initrd; if you use the "make-kpkg --initrd " it is sufficient to add vesafb fbcon to the /etc/mkinitrd/mod

Re: smaller fonts on boot

2005-06-17 Thread Colin Ingram
Michal Simovic wrote: but that's all i could do, i don't know how to pass a command line option that would actually switch to that mode.. could you give me some more instruction? "vga" is not recognized by the grub command line.. An excerpt from my menu.lst file ### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNEL

Re: smaller fonts on boot

2005-06-17 Thread alex
Alle 12:32, giovedì 16 giugno 2005, Michal Simovic ha scritto: > has grub any such configuring option(i succesfully made the boot menu to > show a splash image in the background) or is there another way of > achvieving this? I put in the kopt line: vga=775 Look google for other options! A.

Re: smaller fonts on boot

2005-06-17 Thread Michal Simovic
i either don't understand what you are saying or just can't do it that way.. the only grub commands that have something in common with graphics and work for me are "testvbe" and "vbeprobe". the "vbeprobe" seems to test graphical modes, i found out 1024x768 with 24bit color depth should be "0x11

Re: smaller fonts on boot

2005-06-16 Thread Mr Mike
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:29:21 +0200 Michal Simovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, i would like to ask if there is a way to get smaller fonts on boot > (and in console) different from editing lilo.conf (as i am using grub > and want to continue in doing so :)) > has grub an

smaller fonts on boot

2005-06-16 Thread Michal Simovic
Original Message Subject: smaller fonts on boot Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:29:21 +0200 From: Michal Simovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org sorry i forgot: i'm using Debian Sarge hi, i would like to ask if there is a way to get smaller fonts o

smaller fonts on boot

2005-06-16 Thread Michal Simovic
hi, i would like to ask if there is a way to get smaller fonts on boot (and in console) different from editing lilo.conf (as i am using grub and want to continue in doing so :)) has grub any such configuring option(i succesfully made the boot menu to show a splash image in the background) or is