From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755804Ab2DPXYz (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:24:55 -0400 Received: from queueout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.58]:15286 "EHLO queueout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754950Ab2DPXYy (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:24:54 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:02:49 +0100 From: Ken Moffat To: Nick Bowler Cc: Russell Whitaker , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: default framebuffer Message-ID: <20120416220249.GA25109@milliways> References: <20120416140443.GA1153@elliptictech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20120416140443.GA1153@elliptictech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=JvdXmxIgLJv2/GthKqHpGJEEHukvLcvELVXUanXFreg= c=1 sm=0 a=wom5GMh1gUkA:10 a=uObrxnre4hsA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=FP58Ms26AAAA:8 a=Yrc_H3D_O720Q7uo5jYA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=HpAAvcLHHh0Zw7uRqdWCyQ==:117 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:04:43AM -0400, Nick Bowler wrote: > Hi Russell, > > On 2012-04-15 21:37 -0700, Russell Whitaker wrote: > > > > What should I do to keep the screen at 80x25? > > Load a bigger console font. For example, the Terminus font package > http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/ includes some nice console fonts > in a variety of sizes. Try > > setfont ter-132b > > to start. Your distribution probably provides a convenient way to set > the console font at boot. > > Hope that helps, Alternatively, add video=something to the commandline in your bootloader. I've got a 1600x1200 screen. On some machines I use my 12x22 font, on the others I use my 8x16 font with video=1024x768 ¹ Oh, and on my netbook I use the 12x22 for something like 95x30. But I also guess that exactly 80x25 is not necessarily critical, provided the characters are legible. I've no idea which video= values work, and I'm using a lot more than 80x25, but perhaps video=800x600 or video=640x480 (assuming, of course, that you have a 4:3 screen and not the now-common 16:10) with a small font will be in the right area. ¹ LatGrkCyr - they are in kbd as of 1.15.3, but there's no telling whether you will like it - people using a light background almost certainly will hate it. ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce