Re: [gentoo-amd64] I took the plunge with kde

["Anders Lövgren" <lespaul@algonet.se>]

On Saturdayen den 5 September 2009 16.54.14 Paul Stear wrote:
> On Saturday 05 Sep 2009 14:51:43 Anders Lövgren wrote:
> > On Saturdayen den 5 September 2009 13.43.19 Paul Stear wrote:
> > > Well I now have kde 4.3.1 installed and apart from a few issues the
> > > update from 3.5.10 went well.
> > >
> > > ***Well done***  to all the developers who have brought kde this far. I
> > > just need to get use to working slightly different now <grin>.
> > >
> > > By the way does anybody know how to use a smaller font for the boot up
> > > screen?
> >
> > Try append something like 'vga=791 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1280x800-16'
> > to your kernel parameters in grub.conf
>
> <snip>
> Thanks Anders but it didn't work, I just had a blank screen but the machine
> did boot and gave me the kde loggin.
> Paul

Try setting the video parameter to the native resolution for your monitor. The 
vga value to use can be found in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt, 
using the best matching value seems to be sufficient.

You have to experiment a bit at the grub boot prompt, and for some graphic 
card/display combinations the VESA mode is not going to work at all.

// Anders