Re: virt terminal font problem

2011-09-06 Thread Whit Hansell
On 09/05/2011 06:21 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 04:12:31PM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: Please select the size of the font for the Linux console. Simple │ │ integers corresponding to fonts can be used with all console drivers. │[snip] Some general points: - Yo

Re: virt terminal font problem

2011-09-05 Thread Whit Hansell
On 09/05/2011 06:24 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: [Please don't top-post. Thanks.] On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 06:17:57PM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: Ivan and group. I went ahead and tried resetting the "radeon modeset] to 0 which is linux for [OFF], and voila' it worked. Shazaam! What do you know.

Re: [SOLVED] virt terminal font problem

2011-09-05 Thread Roger Leigh
[Please don't top-post. Thanks.] On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 06:17:57PM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: > Ivan and group. I went ahead and tried resetting the "radeon > modeset] to 0 which is linux for [OFF], and voila' it worked. > Shazaam! What do you know. I was afraid I was going to hose it > all

Re: [SOLVED]virt terminal font problem

2011-09-05 Thread Whit Hansell
And thank you too Brain. You helped too as going to reconfigure gave me the info about the radeonFB problem I had mentioned in the mail to Ivan. Great help. And I will look more often to the reconfigure situation as a possible cure for problems in the future more often. I'd used it before o

Re: virt terminal font problem

2011-09-05 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 04:12:31PM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: > Please select the size of the font for the Linux console. Simple │ > │ integers corresponding to fonts can be used with all console > drivers. │ > │ The number then represents the font height (number of scan > lines).

Re:[SOLVED] virt terminal font problem

2011-09-05 Thread Whit Hansell
Ivan and group. I went ahead and tried resetting the "radeon modeset] to 0 which is linux for [OFF], and voila' it worked. Shazaam! What do you know. I was afraid I was going to hose it all up but nope, it came up just like it was 'sposed to. Ivan, thank you for your help, so much. I'd g

Re: virt terminal font problem

2011-09-05 Thread Whit Hansell
Thank you Brian . I did the dpkg reconfigure console-setup but none of the various iterations I tried worked. I have replied to Ivan's suggestion asking a question about making a change to a file in modprobe.d. I did find a notice in the reconfugure deal re framebuffers and that the driver

Re: virt terminal font problem

2011-09-05 Thread Whit Hansell
[Having to resend this as I originally only sent it to Ivan - this is to the user group] Thanks for the reply Ivan. Shawn mentioned trying dpkg-reconfigure console-setup so I tried that first and got nowhere but it did give me a notice when I set it in certain setups, as in VGA. It came up w.

Re: virt terminal font problem

2011-09-05 Thread Brian
On Sun 04 Sep 2011 at 21:17:14 -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: > Has anyone any knowledge of manipulating font size in Virt Term in > Wheezy? Any help will be appreciated. It is not an imperative as I can > and do use the gnome terminal program but it would be nice to be able to > use the Virtu

Re: virt terminal font problem

2011-09-04 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Whit Hansell writes: […] > I had a problem when I purchased a new monitor, an LCD, and it > required me to put "vga=785" at the end of the Kernel line in > menu.list file in order to get any video out of the Virtual Terminal > (F1-6). Now that I have reinstalled w. Wheezy, I have the

virt terminal font problem

2011-09-04 Thread Whit Hansell
Maybe someone can help me here. I've googled all over and cannot find an answer to my problem. I had been running Lenny before Squeeze went stable, then installed Wheezy testing because I wanted to get back to running testing again instead of stable. I've been running Debian Linux since 2002