[Having to resend this as I originally only sent it to Ivan - this is
to the user group]
Thanks for the reply Ivan. Shawn mentioned trying dpkg-reconfigure
console-setup so I tried that first and got nowhere but it did give me
a notice when I set it in certain setups, as in VGA. It came up w.
this notice.....
Please select the size of the font for the Linux console.
Simple │
│ integers corresponding to fonts can be used with all console
drivers. │
│ The number then represents the font height (number of scan lines).
│
│ Alternatively, the font may be represented as HEIGHTxWIDTH;
however, │
│ such font specifications require the kbd console package (not │
│ console-tools) plus framebuffer (and the RadeonFB kernel driver for
│
│ framebuffer does not support them either). │
│ │
│ Font heights can be useful for figuring out the real size of the
symbols │
│ on the console. For reference, the font used when the computer
boots has │
│ size 16.
So, on the next page I set the font size to 16 and rebooted just for
grins and it made no difference.
But on your suggestion, I looked at etc/modprobe.d and found.....
root@greatstar:/etc/modprobe.d# cat radeon-kms.conf
options radeon modeset=1
I'm guessing that if I change the options radeon modeset from 1 to 0,
then the radeon drivers won't load on reboot. Then the standard
framebuffers situation would occur? BTW my video driver is onboard
and is an ATI RV610 if that helps at all.
Do you think I'm correct in the idea of changing the modeset from 1 to
0 and would I have problems by doing so? Thanks for your help. I
know i sound goofy but I did a safe upgrade today in the midst of this
mess and a cups file was upgraded and it hosed my printing up. So far
I have printed from the web and can get noting but black, not blank,
but black pages. <G> YOu can understand why I'm a bit spooky. <G>
Thanks for your help Ivan. I really appreciate it.
Whit
On 09/05/2011 01:25 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
Whit Hansell<skipper44@comcast.net> writes:
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> I had a problem when I purchased a new monitor, an LCD, and it
> required me to put "vga=785" at the end of the Kernel line in
> menu.list file in order to get any video out of the Virtual Terminal
> (F1-6). Now that I have reinstalled w. Wheezy, I have the Virtual
> Terminal but the font size is extremely tiny. I cannot see it well
> at all and I have a vision problem to start with.
Newer Linux& userland VT tools' default is to use video card's
graphics mode via a framebuffer console driver, instead of the
text mode, which was the older default.
My guess is that blacklisting the framebuffer drivers in
modprobe.d(5) will allow one to use the text mode as before, but
I haven't tried it yet. (I currently have no access to a
hardware running Wheezy.)
It's also possible to use the Terminus fonts (as of
console-terminus, IIRC), e. g.:
$ setfont -f /usr/share/consolefonts/Uni3-TerminusBold28x14.psf.gz
Depending on the actual screen resolution, a font of up to 32x16
pixel size may be chosen.
> This problem w. terminal starts after boot when it gets to a certain
> point, I'm assuming init.d, but not sure. While it's trying to check
> hardware items it's fine, the standard 80 X 25 large font terminal
> screen. Then all of a sudden it changes to the small/tiny font
… And it's the time the framebuffer drivers get loaded.
> and just before it brings up the splash screen, it sometimes messes
> up the whole screen and puts across the top of the screen garbled
> lines for just a second, then the splash screen pops up and I have no
> problem logging in.
Note also that since newer reboot(8) doesn't go through the BIOS
(it only reinitializes the kernel), the screen will be garbled
at reboot as well.
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