Re: Console Resolution with GRUB2

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 10:18:42 -0500	[thread overview]
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I understand that Chris typed the wrong directory.  Instead of mis it
should have been misc.

I also found I did not have the package unifont installed.

I installed unifont, and now I have the file in the misc folder:

 locate unifont.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/unifont.pcf.gz

However when I run this command I receive an error that I cannot generate
24x24 font size.

# grub-mkfont -s 24 -o unicode.pf2 /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/unifont.pcf.gz
grub-mkfont: error: can't set 24x24 font size.

Do I need a package to generate these font sizes, if so, which ones?

Thanks,

DR

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:10 AM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea@arrl.net> wrote:

> 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
>> > _______________________________________________
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>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
>>
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