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On 02/03/2011 02:11 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> On 02/03/2011 08:07 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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>> 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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> Note that the suggestion the others gave about disabling KMS is probably |
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>not what you need. Disabling KMS means that it will also be disabled for |
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>X11, not only for the framebuffer. As you can imagine this is a bad thing. |
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I'm aware of KMS because of my experiments with the 'nouveau' driver, but |
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I still have no idea what KMS really does. |
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In other words, I *cannot* imagine why disabling KMS is a bad thing, but I |
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would very much like to know :) |
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