Re: Font selection with i915

["Tomas M." <tmezzadra@gmail.com>]

since 2.6.32 you can change the resolution with video=VGA-1:640x480 boot 
parameter and emulate the old behaviour.



On 01/20/2010 05:39 PM, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Corbin Simpson wrote:
>
>    
>> FYI the legacy non-KMS path (nomodeset) is deprecated in kernel and
>> was recently dropped from the X driver. You should be able to use
>> fbset to change the resolution of your fbcon though.
>>      
> I tried fbset, and it was distinctly unsuccessful.  When I ran "fbset
> 640x480-60", the general appearance of the screen did not change but
> all new text got squeezed into the upper-left corner in an unreadable
> form.
>
> It's not clear what mode I should specify.  The output from "fbset" is
> rather unhelpful (I didn't save the exact output but this is close):
>
> 	mode: "1280x1024-0"
> 	D: 0 MHz H: 0 kHz V: 0 Hz
> 	geometry: 1280 1024 1280 1024 32
> 	timings: -1 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 	rgba: 8/16,8/8,8/0,0/0
>
> Alan Stern
>
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