From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to increase console (text) screen resolution
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 18:09:14 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEH5T2OxcNmSza0ZgYA6A6eS0dZ=GG9SqEEU8mmgfscs=-XA1Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ipls0wb4.fsf@newsguy.com>
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Have you tried:
>>
>> vga=ask
>>
>> It'll give you a list of hopefully supported resolutions.
>
> Yes but those are not really resolutions are they?... I thought they
> were actual font size changes.
>
> 5 is closest but any of the smaller ones look too silly and
> unreadable. Whereas a hefty resolution like 1200 over 1024 looks
> nice, just smaller.
>
> I moved away, yrs ago from using vga=ask because it really does not
> have a satisfactory view setting. 5 is best, but also seem a bit
> large, the next one looks too crowded and ugly.
I use uvesafb. It's a little awkward to set up the first time, but was
more flexible for me as far as the possible resolutions.
Instructions are here:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/
The relevant part of my grub kernel line:
video=uvesafb:1280x800-32,mtrr:2,ywrap
That goes into a 1280x800 video mode. I then use consolefont in my
default runlevel to set the font to one that I prefer (ter-112n from
media-fonts/terminus-font)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-08 0:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-07 21:44 [gentoo-user] How to increase console (text) screen resolution Harry Putnam
2011-12-07 21:55 ` Michael Mol
2011-12-07 22:34 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2011-12-07 23:03 ` Mick
2011-12-07 23:57 ` Harry Putnam
2011-12-08 0:09 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2011-12-08 0:43 ` Michael Mol
2011-12-07 23:33 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2011-12-07 23:52 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2011-12-08 0:02 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-12-08 0:36 ` Harry Putnam
2011-12-08 0:42 ` Harry Putnam
2011-12-08 5:53 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2011-12-08 23:44 ` Harry Putnam
2011-12-09 7:01 ` Mick
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