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From: "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea@arrl.net>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Console Resolution with GRUB2
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 10:10:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADO5Rbhi5Z80MeDv5X58f8r1VBqG9pGr1PnZMMaCw6wZ=g4KpQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5110B696.6040705@gmail.com>

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I understand now.  The config files are up to the Distibution.

I tried what you advised, Chris, but I have no such directory:

 ls /usr/share/fonts/X11/
100dpi/    75dpi/     encodings/ misc/      Type1/     util/

So the command:

grub-mkfont -s 24 -o unicode.pf2 /usr/share/fonts/X11/mis/unifont.pcf.gz

fails on me.
# can't open file /usr/share/fonts/X11/mis/unifont.pcf.gz, index 0: error
1: cannot open resource

Furthermore, I have no such file unifont.pcf.gz on the system.

Can you be of further help, I very much appreciate your help.

David J. Ring, Jr.

=30=


On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:36 AM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <
phcoder@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 05.02.2013 06:32, Chris Murphy wrote:
>
> >
> > On Feb 4, 2013, at 9:35 PM, "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea@arrl.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >> I thought I'd post here as my post is not exactly help, but that also
> will be welcome.
> >>
> >> Prior to GRUB2 it was quite easy to change virtual console resolution.
> >>
> >> There are some of us who still use console without  X windows.  One
> such group is older persons who cannot see at anything except 640x480
> resolution.
> >
> > Well technically that's a terrible resolution for reading due to
> pixelization. The better way to deal with this is setting a larger font
> size for the higher resolution of the display. I can't even think of any
> laptop or desktop LCD's with a native resolution of 640x480. So to force it
> to a lower, and thus non-native resolution, makes the problem worse.
> >
>
> Agreed. To increase font size regenerate unicode.pf2 using grub-mkfont
> with appropriate -s option. E.g.
> grub-mkfont -s 24 -o unicode.pf2 /usr/share/fonts/X11/mis/unifont.pcf.gz
>
> Put resulting file in /boot/grub/unicode_24.pf2 and add
> GRUB_FONT_PATH=/boot/grub/unicode_24.pf2
> to /etc/default/grub
>
> > Chris Murphy
> > _______________________________________________
> > Grub-devel mailing list
> > Grub-devel@gnu.org
> > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Regards
> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-05 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-05  4:35 Console Resolution with GRUB2 D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-02-05  5:32 ` Chris Murphy
2013-02-05  7:36   ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-02-05 15:10     ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr. [this message]
2013-02-05 15:18       ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-02-06  4:02         ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-02-06  5:28           ` Chris Murphy
2013-02-06 15:27         ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-02-06 22:44           ` Pete Appleton
2013-02-07 21:49             ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-02-21 21:59               ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-02-21 22:19                 ` Bruce Dubbs
2013-02-28 23:44                   ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-03-01  0:13                     ` Bruce Dubbs
2013-03-01  1:31                       ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-03-01  1:48                         ` Bruce Dubbs
2013-03-01  2:30                           ` Gerard Butler
2013-03-01  2:42                       ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-03-01  2:42                     ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-03-01 18:25                     ` Chris Murphy
2013-03-01 18:47                       ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-03-02  0:43                         ` Jordan Uggla
2013-03-02  4:03                           ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-02-05  6:47 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-02-05  7:29   ` David J. J. Ring, Jr.
2013-02-05  7:32     ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-02-05  7:35     ` Chris Murphy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-03-02  4:07 Gerard Butler
2013-03-02  6:08 ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-03-02  6:20 ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-03-02  6:41   ` Chris Murphy
2013-03-02  6:56     ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-03-02  8:14       ` Jordan Uggla
2013-03-06 20:00         ` D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
2013-03-07  9:38           ` Jordan Uggla
2013-03-02  8:34       ` Andrey Borzenkov

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