From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mk4Oo-0002OA-4X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:10:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 14CB6E08B0; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 23:10:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay.phys.ualberta.ca (relay.phys.ualberta.ca [129.128.7.238]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6AEAE08B0 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 23:10:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from webmail.phys.ualberta.ca ([129.128.7.21]:12162 "EHLO webmail.phys.ualberta.ca" TLS-CIPHER: ) by relay.phys.ualberta.ca with ESMTP id ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 17:08:42 -0600 Received: (from web-proxy@localhost) by webmail.phys.ualberta.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) id n85NAEw27373; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 17:10:14 -0600 Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 17:10:14 -0600 Message-Id: <200909052310.n85NAEw27373@webmail.phys.ualberta.ca> X-Authentication-Warning: webmail.phys.ualberta.ca: web-proxy set sender to pogosyan@Phys.UAlberta.CA using -f From: "Dmitri Pogosyan" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: I took the plunge with kde X-Mailer: Open WebMail 1.50 beta 20011007 X-OriginatingIP: 208.99.145.194 (pogosyan) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: e57fb95e-aaa7-4493-8505-8a70cdd99f3a X-Archives-Hash: 9d2ee73ad00bfb9e102916e3b283231f > On 09/05/2009 02:43 PM, Paul Stear wrote: > > By the way does anybody know how to use a smaller font for the boot up screen? > > What monitor do you have? If it's a TFT, use its native resolution in > the kernel parameters. Though some widescreen resolutions aren't > supported by some graphics cards' VESA BIOSes, sadly. Actually, most of them are, but may have non-standard codes. I run laptop 1440x900x16 (vga=0x36a) and desktop monitor at 1680x1050x32 (vga=0x369). vbespy from the bottom of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions allows the detection of supported VESA modes on your card. Be careful to convert VESA mode codes reported by vbespy to kernel codes that vga= parameter takes. Transformation is to add 512, and, optionally convert to hex. i.e for me vbespy reports 1680x1050 (8,8,8) vesa mode as 361 (decimal). Kernel mode is 361+512=873=0x369 in hex > > Another solution is to change the kernel font (in the kernel > configuration, somewhere in the console framebuffer settings) and > console font (/etc/conf.d/consolefont) since the kernel font will be > replaced after the kernel has booted an init is run. -- Dmitri Pogosyan Department of Physics Professor University of Alberta tel 1-780-492-2150 11322 - 89 Avenue fax 1-780-492-0714 Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G7, CANADA