Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Dmitri Pogosyan <pogosyan@×××××××××××××.ca>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: I took the plunge with kde
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:10:26
Message-Id: 200909052310.n85NAEw27373@webmail.phys.ualberta.ca
1 > On 09/05/2009 02:43 PM, Paul Stear wrote:
2 > > By the way does anybody know how to use a smaller font for the boot up screen?
3 >
4 > What monitor do you have? If it's a TFT, use its native resolution in
5 > the kernel parameters. Though some widescreen resolutions aren't
6 > supported by some graphics cards' VESA BIOSes, sadly.
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8 Actually, most of them are, but may have non-standard codes.
9 I run laptop 1440x900x16 (vga=0x36a) and desktop monitor at 1680x1050x32
10 (vga=0x369).
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12 vbespy from the bottom of
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14 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions
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16 allows the detection of supported VESA modes on your card.
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18 Be careful to convert VESA mode codes reported by vbespy to kernel codes
19 that vga= parameter takes. Transformation is to add 512, and, optionally
20 convert to hex.
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22 i.e for me vbespy reports 1680x1050 (8,8,8) vesa mode as 361 (decimal). Kernel
23 mode is 361+512=873=0x369 in hex
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26 >
27 > Another solution is to change the kernel font (in the kernel
28 > configuration, somewhere in the console framebuffer settings) and
29 > console font (/etc/conf.d/consolefont) since the kernel font will be
30 > replaced after the kernel has booted an init is run.
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35 Dmitri Pogosyan Department of Physics
36 Professor University of Alberta
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