Re: Tiny terminal text after kernel update
On 2010-05-24 16:59 +0200, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> On 16:28 Sun 23 May , Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
>> After a recent kernel update, my linux terminal is now displaying
>> teeny-tiny text. How do I set the default terminal back to 80x25?
>>
>
> I had this on my system as well. I also had trouuble when tried to reinstall the
> binary nvidia driver for my nvidia card. It would not work.
>
> I mucked around and discovered that there is default install of the nouveau driver in the
> new kernel.
>
> So the solution to both of the problems (tiny font on boot + failure to install non-free
> binary nvidia kernel using the NVIDIA non free linux drivers) is to ban the nouveau kernel module.
>
> The way to do this is
>
> put the line
>
> blacklist nouveau
>
> in the file
>
> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
>
> then when you boot you will be in good shape.
Note that the latest nvidia-kernel-common package will do this for you
(it puts the line into /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-common.conf).
> The nouveau kernel module sets up a framebuffer for nvidia graphics cards like ours.
This is something which I actually like very much. The console-setup
package can be used to pick up a bigger font if the default font is too
small.
Sven
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