Re: fbset doesn't work
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:15:46PM +0200, Ottavio Campana wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 06:31:57AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 11:20:17AM +0200, Ottavio Campana wrote:
> > > i'm becoming blind because of the size of the characters displayed on my
> > > monitor.
> > > I've tried to do fbset 800x600-56 but I get
> > > ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: invalid argument
> >
> > It means that the mode you tried isn't usable on that fb. Not sure what
> > modes are available for fb, so you'll have to try them out.
>
> why can't I find a working mode different from the one I currently use?
> Could it be a kernel problem? Or is my framebuffer that has just got one
> mode?
Framebuffer and/or monitor could be single mode. You can however recompile
the kernel using the 12x22 Sun Font, and not have the problem (larger
font).
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