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From: Lord Sauron <lordsauronthegreat@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] lcd console fonts
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 19:24:38
Message-Id: e5a3e9ac0605301205q7d8ad793n3b7bda82b233e4eb@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] lcd console fonts by maxim wexler
1 On 5/30/06, maxim wexler <blissfix@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Hi group,
3 >
4 > The console fonts in my new LCD monitor are H-U-G-E.
5 > Attempts to shrink them by adding vga=xxx at the grub
6 > prompt after the kernel line has no effect. Here's the
7 > entire grub session:
8
9 I'm not exactly sure, however, I'm making my best educated guess at this.
10
11 > grub> root (hd0,1)
12 >
13 > grub> kernel /vmlinuz vga=794 #1280x1024(so I'm told)
14
15 Mine looks like video=vesafb:1024x768-32@60, and so on. I'd think
16 that vga=794:1280x1024 or something might work. However, I wouldn't
17 know for sure. I'm interested to learn what is the correct solution
18 though - It'll be neat to see more of how grub behaves.
19
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Re: [gentoo-user] lcd console fonts Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@×××××.com>