Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed
On 05 Aug 2010, Thomas H. George wrote:
> >
> I followed these instructions chosing the Terminus font and a character
> height of 32 and then rebooted. The boot screen and initial scripts
> were easy to read, actually larger than I need BUT
>
> About half way through the boot up the scripts changed back to the tiny
> fonts. There was a line saying consolechars can only load fonts with a
> height of 16, try installing setfont. Apt-get search found setfont in
> kbd-compat but apt-get install reported that the latest version of
> kbd-compat was already installed.
>
> What now?
>
> Tom
>
Isn't this the KMS issue? I solved it by editing
/etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf, as suggested by
/usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-radeon.
The change to tiny font half-way through booting was exactly the symptom
I had before doing the above.
Anthony
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