On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 06:44:03PM +0000, debian@lamie.net wrote: > On 9/24/2005, "Angelo Bertolli" <angelo@freeshell.org> wrote: > > >debian@lamie.net wrote: > > > >>Hi there, > >>my default debian installation gives a console with 25 rows and a > >>huuuuuuuge font. I feed vga=ask as boot parameter and choose 80x43 and > >>get a viewable screen with squashed fonts. During the boot messages, > >>just after the nic is up and running, the fonts reconfigure and I'm > >>back to 25 rows again ;-( with a squashed font ;-((. I've checked > >>through the /etc/init.d/* scripts and can't see anything relevant that > >>could be doing this so I'm guessing it must be happening at the kernel > >>level. Don't want to go back to other distro's. Love the debian > >>package managment system but can't be doing with the huge font. Does > >>anyone know how I can resolve this problem? Do I need to configure a > >>text file? Influence modules that are loaded? All help greatly > >>appreciated. > >> > >> > >Try passing in vga=0x317, dont' have my framebuffer chart on hand, but > >you can look it up on google. > vga=0x317 blanks my screen. > My boot messages give the message 'Configuring general fonts... > /dev/tty0 (ios15) /dev/tty1 (iso15) etc. It is at this point that my > console reverts to 80x25. That's console tools (/etc/init.d/console-screen.sh) changing the font. You can try to change it's behaviour by editing the /etc/console-tools/config. I think either disabling (commenting out) all the APP_CHARSET_MAP entries or changing the SCREEN_FONT could change it. I haven't tried it myself, so I can't help you more, sorry. There is some docs in /usr/share/doc/console-tools/ HTH Simo -- :r ~/.signature
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