Quoth Matthew Smith at 2009-03-18 08:36...
The issue is this: * Boot machine. * Console font size is sensible. * Run xorg (startx). * Close xorg.* Console font size is now enormous on all TTYs to the point of being unusable. (Have to reboot to be able to work again.)
It seems that the problem was coming from the default xorg.conf, which specifies the vesa driver. Once I started working on this file (mainly to get xinerama working,) the change to fglrx driver made the problem go away.
I am still curious as to WHY this happens but the issue is no longer critical.
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