From: "Tomas M." <tmezzadra@gmail.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Corbin Simpson <mostawesomedude@gmail.com>,
James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>,
dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Font selection with i915
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:32:58 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B57BCDA.1070705@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1001201504390.1672-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-21 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-17 17:00 Font selection with i915 Alan Stern
2010-01-19 16:32 ` James Simmons
2010-01-19 18:09 ` Alan Stern
2010-01-20 18:46 ` Corbin Simpson
2010-01-20 20:39 ` Alan Stern
2010-01-21 2:32 ` Tomas M. [this message]
2010-01-21 15:38 ` Alan Stern
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