Re: text size on CLI

2012-07-18 Thread Mike McClain
Hi Brian, On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 09:28:18AM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Mon 16 Jul 2012 at 22:36:20 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > > > I'm talking about /dev/tty1-10, non-GUI console. > Fixed fonts have an upper limit to their size of 16. Anything larger and > you need to use the Terminus font. 'dp

Re: text size on CLI

2012-07-17 Thread Brian
On Mon 16 Jul 2012 at 22:36:20 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > I'm talking about /dev/tty1-10, non-GUI console. > > I changed /etc/default/console-setup from: > FONTFACE="VGA" > FONTSIZE="32x16" > to: > FONTFACE="Fixed" > FONTSIZE="18" > and reran setupcon but still have a 42x128 scr

Re: text size on CLI

2012-07-16 Thread Mike McClain
Hi Chris, On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 08:45:17PM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: > Mike McClain wrote: > > On the command line in Squeeze my screen size seems to be 43x128 > > which makes it very hard on my eyes. How do I get it to around 36x80? > > When you say "the command line" do you mean in a termin

Re: text size on CLI

2012-07-16 Thread Mike McClain
Thanks for the suggestion Siard but it doesn't seem to work here. I tried a couple of dirrerent fonts and changing the text size but none affected the display. Is there a way to turn off the framebuffer for the commandline short of rebuilding the kernel which I haven't gotten to work yet? T

Re: text size on CLI

2012-07-16 Thread Chris Davies
Mike McClain wrote: > On the command line in Squeeze my screen size seems to be 43x128 > which makes it very hard on my eyes. How do I get it to around 36x80? When you say "the command line" do you mean in a terminal window within the GUI or do you mean on a non-GUI console? If it's the latter,

Re: text size on CLI

2012-07-16 Thread Siard
Mike McClain wrote: > On the command line in Squeeze my screen size seems to be 43x128 > which makes it very hard on my eyes. How do I get it to around 36x80? # dpkg-reconfigure console-setup Select font and font size. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

text size on CLI

2012-07-16 Thread Mike McClain
On the command line in Squeeze my screen size seems to be 43x128 which makes it very hard on my eyes. How do I get it to around 36x80? Thanks, Mike -- Satisfied user of Linux since 1997. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-