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Hello, |
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On Sat, 17 May 2014, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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>On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 01:21:08PM +0200, David Haller wrote |
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>> The Linux text-console font is also very good. |
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> I used to do email and various other stuff on a VGA2 screen (640x480). |
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>There are 5 lat1 consolefonts... |
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> |
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>/usr/share/consolefonts/lat1-08.psfu.gz |
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[..] |
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>/usr/share/consolefonts/lat1-16.psfu.gz |
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[..] |
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> Then video drivers came along that insisted on taking over text mode, |
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>and running at native framebuffer resolution. I have a 1280x800 |
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>notebook that would be perfectly legible with the screen kicked into |
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>640x480 mode, and lat1-12 font selected. Unfortunately, the Intel |
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>driver takes over and 1280x800 pixels text mode is barely legible 160 |
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>columns x 50 rows. On some machines, it was possible to override things |
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>and force 640x480 mode in consolemode at bootup. Unfortunately, that |
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>forcing would also stick in X, where you do not want 640x480 pixels!!! |
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Hm. I've no idea about the intel-drivers, but nvidia plays nice with |
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"nomodeset" or rather, I just use "vga=normal" on the kernel |
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commandline. I do not have any graphics driver in the initrd, the |
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nvidia module is loaded only as X gets started. |
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Maybe that is the problem I have with newer driver versions (I use |
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295.49, any newer I tested just gives me a blank screen). I should |
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try using nvidiafb again. |
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> The consolefont program can select any available font. Question... |
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>* Plan A) can I get 16-pixel wide lat1 consolefonts from somewhere? |
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emerge terminus-font |
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might help. E.g.: setfont ter-132n. But that seems to need a |
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framebuffer, but you seem to have that ;) |
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I like default8x16 better though. At least at vga=normal which gives |
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me a nice 80x25 terminal ;) |
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>* Plan B) is there free software around that can modify/tweak the |
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> regular fonts to double their width? |
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emerge psftools |
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man -k psf |
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HTH, |
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-dnh |
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-- |
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An Emacs reference mug is what I want. It would hold ten gallons of coffee. |
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-- Steve VanDevender |
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