On 22/02/2020 20:57, Alex Yuriev wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 4K laptop in a 12" package with Intel HD520. I have been > running Debian 7 and Debian 8 on it for a while and now I have updated > to Debian 10. > > I'm sure that you already have an idea of the issue - the console > fonts on 4k are tiny, barely usable even at 32px ( does anyone know > why setfont is limited to 32 pixels in high or width )? > > The biggest problem is that if KMS is on which it has to be for X to > accelerated graphics then the initrd uses default tiny font as > described by in #859458 > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=859458 which makes > say answering entering a passphrase for FDE extremely difficult. If you install Plymouth, then you can use a Graphical theme during boot, which allows for the option of any Scalable (aka True Type) font, at any size. > > Now the solution/workaround is that while building the initrd we > should blacklist i915 while allowing it to be loaded after the root is > mounted. In that flow the KMS would not activate at initrd stage as > i915 would be blacklisted but would activate in the late stage. I have > tested this approach and it works perfectly. > > Which brings me to a question: > > Is there an "official" way to accomplish this via hooks in > initramfs-tool? Are there user/system hooks that would be preserved > across initramfs-tool updates and a correct/conventional way of > implementing them? > > This is initramfs-tools 0.13deb10u1 > > Thanks, > Alex > >
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