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> On 09/05/2009 02:43 PM, Paul Stear wrote: |
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> > By the way does anybody know how to use a smaller font for the boot up screen? |
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> What monitor do you have? If it's a TFT, use its native resolution in |
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> the kernel parameters. Though some widescreen resolutions aren't |
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> supported by some graphics cards' VESA BIOSes, sadly. |
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actually, most of them are. I happily run with vesafb 1440x900x16 laptop |
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display (vga=0x36a) and 1680x1050x32 monitor (kernel parameter vga=0x369 ) |
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I had a tool that detects all VESA modes your card supports, but somehow |
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can't recall what was its name. |
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> Another solution is to change the kernel font (in the kernel |
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> configuration, somewhere in the console framebuffer settings) and |
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> console font (/etc/conf.d/consolefont) since the kernel font will be |
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> replaced after the kernel has booted an init is run. |
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