Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal - SOLVED
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:35:15 +0200
Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sb, 19 feb 11, 11:09:06, Joe Riel wrote:
> >
> > An advantage for me of the noveau driver, besides restoring the
> > beep in an xterm, was that the console font (in a virtual terminal)
> > is much nicer. I had tried various configurations of the console
> > font with the nvidia driver, but it never looked good---too big and
> > kind of fuzzy. The console font with the nouveau driver is sharp,
> > reasonably small, and didn't require any configuration on my part.
> >
> > I don't use the console much, but when I have to its nice to
> > be able to comfortably read it.
>
> First step would be to use the correct resolution for your monitor, I
> use this in /etc/default/grub
>
> GRUB_GFXMODE=1680x1050
> GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep
I ran vbeinfo in grub to list the available resolutions, and used the
highest one shown. The result wasn't as nice as what I get with
nouveau; maybe I didn't spend enough time configuring it, but
I went through several iterations with various fonts. None of them
looked particularly nice.
>
> Unfortunately I am affected by #575624 :(
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
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Joe Riel
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