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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, but may have non-standard codes. |
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I run laptop 1440x900x16 (vga=0x36a) and desktop monitor at 1680x1050x32 |
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(vga=0x369). |
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vbespy from the bottom of |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions |
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allows the detection of supported VESA modes on your card. |
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Be careful to convert VESA mode codes reported by vbespy to kernel codes |
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that vga= parameter takes. Transformation is to add 512, and, optionally |
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convert to hex. |
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i.e for me vbespy reports 1680x1050 (8,8,8) vesa mode as 361 (decimal). Kernel |
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mode is 361+512=873=0x369 in hex |
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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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