[gentoo-amd64] I took the plunge with kde

[gentoo-amd64] I took the plunge with kde

[Paul Stear]

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?

Well thanks again to all who helped with kde4.3.1
Paul
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] I took the plunge with kde

[Anders Lövgren]

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

> Well thanks again to all who helped with kde4.3.1
> Paul

// Anders

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

[Paul Stear]

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

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

[Nikos Chantziaras]

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.

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.

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

[Anders Lövgren]

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