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On Thursday 03 February 2011 06:07:55 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> Back around 2000, we still had CRT monitors, not LCDs. The cheaper |
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> monitors shimmered badly in GUI mode and were hard on my eyes. One of |
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> the factors that drove me to linux back then was that, except for web |
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> browsing and spreadsheets, I could do most of my work in a true text |
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> console (and I don't mean an xterm, either). I love sharp crisp |
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> textmode fonts on a text console. I used to do email and write code in |
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> text consoles, and {CTRL-ALT-F10} to GUI for browsing (yes, I tweaked my |
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> /etc/inittab to allow 10 consoles). |
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> Recently, however, video drivers for both Intel and ATI have switched |
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> over to some brain-dead framebuffer mode that renders regular |
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> consolefonts microscopic. Also the line lengths are ridiculously long. |
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> E.g. on my 1920x1200 LCD monitor, an 8x16 font gives 75 rows of 240 |
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> columns each. On my 14" notebook (1366x768) it's 48 rows of 170 columns |
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> each. The largest consolefont I can find in /usr/share/consolefonts/ is |
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> sun12x22. It's large enough to be at least readable, but I don't like |
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> the way the font looks, and it's still too small for my taste, 54 rows |
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> of 160 columns each on the LCD monitor. |
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> My questions, in decreasing order of preference, are... |
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> Plan a) Is there a way to have a real text console? I know that I can |
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> have 2 X sessions on tty10 and tty11 with different resolutions, and |
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> colour depths. Is there a way to set tty1..tty9 to 640x480 *IN TEXT |
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> MODE*, so that lat1-?? fonts would look normal, without killing the |
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> ability to have X run at 1920x1200? |
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Yes. |
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Leave KMS enabled and add the parameter: |
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video=1024x768 (or whatever suits your screen and taste) |
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to your kernel line. You shouldn't need vesafb, uvesa or any other drivers to |
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achieve this. |
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Read more here: /Documentation/fb/modedb.txt |
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I think that if you revert to a framebuffer driver then you must add nomodeset |
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on your kernel line. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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