Re: Can't set resolution for console
There were similar posts not so long ago.
In my opinion, if someone asks you :
#
# Console display driver support
#
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y
You'd better say no to CONFIG_FONT_8x16 !
8x8 makes you sure you get 50 lines instead of 25.
And now here is my former post - never got any answer, though, but I know it
worked for me :)
>
> > I want a higher console resolution, therefore I use vga=6 as a
> kerneloption.
> > During system boot the resolution is set to the higher mode and then,
> > just before the system is sone boting, the console resolution switches
> > back to the default.
>
> Actually what happens is that the default console settings are taking over.
> I just sorted out this issue not so long ago thanks to this link:
> http://www.dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_20.html#SEC318
> This is where you can learn how to try the different fonts available for the
> console.
> Then if you want to change the console configuration it is all in
> /etc/console-tools/config
> The config file is self documented, even if I haven't found out the hidden
> meaning of SCREEN_FONT and APP_CHARSET. My file looks like this:
> <code>
> BLANK_TIME=30
> BLANK_DPMS=off
> POWERDOWN_TIME=30
> APP_CHARSET_MAP=lat9-08
> SCREEN_FONT=lat9-08
> </code>
> Be careful with the choice of your font, cause it may sometimes lead to funny
> characters in emacs or a n-curses based application (especially the drawing
> of
> the windows and stuff). It is my case and I believe this is linked to my
> APP_CHARSET_MAP setting, which should be left to ISO-15 or sth.
> Anyway, the most important is SCREEN_FONT. mine is 'lat9' (I'm French) with a
> height of 8 instead of the usual 16. This is the way to obtain a 80x50
> resolution.
>
> make sure you have the console-tools package installed with the whole bunch
> of
> fonts! they're supposed to be in /usr/share/consolefonts
> my "lat9-08" stands for /usr/share/consolefonts/lat9-08.psf.gz, that's the
> way
> to adress the fonts in the config file.
>
> Hope I answered your question.
>
> Vince.
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