From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LOOI4-0005cn-Uy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:25:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 14FA4E035F; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:25:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.250]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBE6EE035F for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:25:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so2371576rvf.46 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:25:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=KkCMNs3hDlstQs/1+QiPzDSKy+jV2qJdmY6Z8cGIO3g=; b=A6XbVhjqGK0741KAVh8QMkZ27PK9wXjc7ADm3gmhJCimlvm3Qth3LfSi7NOqOe9TD0 tUiO6YlMJ63pRKyjjuUmaJv0O1ro5xBatvcnmuay4FYT+6B1OFOWyM64oJqZ1P7nD4Sy FccYByuOFpxcY7ikQGY9C1HsPZBV5i7QHUf3Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=ccUGCIIKsEFDqb/PWjJmhM1lhQuq4D2jHLn51Hx0iSbqzM3eDGmnabgNfZAdQeo4nW H+pb5RpSnTBSBlcOED8xFPwpNi9s7L7ea3FTFl9TF+1Evss1iT3AaQwMmekz5iV5WBf1 mmqHBgnhs4CS2mTsIl8wHWOH292C5HG6KV0hI= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.141.28.2 with SMTP id f2mr2078269rvj.217.1232249133087; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:25:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200901171532.38603.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> References: <58965d8a0901152149j42177deel54e80429006813c@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0901161127u474e22a2t49e0dfe4c848921a@mail.gmail.com> <200901171532.38603.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:25:33 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 917c6aab58726e66 Message-ID: <58965d8a0901171925j223488cn1c7478eb2d4a7a6a@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd? From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d4f71012-42c8-4766-82a9-be86345104b5 X-Archives-Hash: f1f71b1fc6af2c80797a487d13969e3a On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 16 January 2009 19:27:53 Paul Hartman wrote: > >> Now I just need to find a good consolefont that doesn't look >> "squished" in 16:9 aspect ratio. Right now I'm using ter-112n (from >> terminus-fonts) and it's pretty good but still a little too wide for >> my taste. > > Thanks for the pointer to that rather nice font. I think the problem, if > yours is like mine in having a 1280x800 screen, is that the frame buffer > simply takes a standard 4:3 screen resolution and stretches it to fit. Thus > I have a distorted 1024x768 console. > > The only way to get a narrower font seems to be to design one six or seven > pixels wide instead of the usual eight. Or at least, to design a tall, > narrow font that would look right when stretched in this way. > > I too would like to know if someone discovers one like this. Well, my framebuffer is 1280x720 which is proper 16:9 aspect ratio for my monitor, but the consolefonts I've tried just don't seem quite my flavor. I want a small font (so I can fit a lot of characters in the screen) without being "short", by which I mean I'd rather have an 8x16 font than an 8x8. In Konsole I'm using "Fixed [ETL]" 10pt, whatever that is, maybe it's the default, I can't remember, but it's nice.