From: Corbin S. <mos...@gm...> - 2010-01-20 18:46:29
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FYI the legacy non-KMS path (nomodeset) is deprecated in kernel and was recently dropped from the X driver. You should be able to use fbset to change the resolution of your fbcon though. ~ C. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Alan Stern <st...@ro...> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, James Simmons wrote: > >> >> > When Fedora 12 loads i915 during initramfs probing on my system, the >> > driver automatically installs a tiny 160x64 font. How can I prevent it >> > from doing this, or tell it to use a larger 80x25 font instead? >> > >> > Is this documented anywhere? >> >> Not really. Here is how you enable larger fonts. Configure your kernel. Go >> into the Graphics support menu. This the the menu that has the >> DRI/Framebuffer and backlight options. You will see a "Console display >> driver support" option. Select it and you will have a new menu. You will >> see the option "Select compiled-in fonts". Enable that and select the font >> you want. Most likely it will be the Sun 12x22 font. Build your kernel. >> >> Their might be one more setup to do. Some distros like to load a console >> font at boot up. Depending on the distro if that is the case you will have >> to disable it. > > It turns out that preventing the mode switch is easier. Finding it > took a certain amount of digging, but the "nomodeset" kernel parameter > prevents the console from leaving normal VGA mode. If only it were > documented... > > Alan Stern > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the > world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference > attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through > interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev > -- > _______________________________________________ > Dri-devel mailing list > Dri...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel > -- Only fools are easily impressed by what is only barely beyond their reach. ~ Unknown Corbin Simpson <Mos...@gm...> |