Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

2010-08-07 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 09:29:30AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: I gave up and installed kbd. On boot up the initial font was large. About half way through the boot up the scripts changed to tiny fonts and then after a half dozen lines switched back to large fonts. The console is now very

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

2010-08-07 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 09:12:20AM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote: Edit: kernel /boot/blah-blah-kernel root=/my/device ro quiet splash Add: vga=HEX Size 640x400 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024 1600x1200 +--

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

2010-08-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Aug 2010, Javier Vasquez wrote: On 8/5/10, Jordon Bedwell jor...@envygeeks.com wrote: On 8/5/2010 12:54 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: The solution is to use a bigger font, as I had tried to explain. Yes, that was your solution, until he explained (which you merrily missed apparently)

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

2010-08-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Aug 2010, Anthony Campbell wrote: Doesn't seem to work here. The small font I can live with, but if I enable KMS another problem appears. Initially the console type face is large. If I start X and go back to the console with ctrl-alt-F1 the type face is small. If I do this a second

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

2010-08-06 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 04:07:26PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 02:49:48PM -0400, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: I don't understand grub's menu.lst.  It begins with several entries and the beginning

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

2010-08-05 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 04:36:49PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-08-04 15:57 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: After installing linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 the console fonts are so small I must use reading glasses to make them out. I have experimented with the consolechars -H 16 -d

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

2010-08-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-08-05 15:59 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: About half way through the boot up the scripts changed back to the tiny fonts. There was a line saying consolechars can only load fonts with a height of 16, try installing setfont. Apt-get search found setfont in kbd-compat but apt-get

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

2010-08-05 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 8/5/2010 8:59 AM, Thomas H. George wrote: I followed these instructions chosing the Terminus font and a character height of 32 and then rebooted. The boot screen and initial scripts were easy to read, actually larger than I need BUT About half way through the boot up the scripts changed

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

2010-08-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Aug 2010, Thomas H. George wrote: I followed these instructions chosing the Terminus font and a character height of 32 and then rebooted. The boot screen and initial scripts were easy to read, actually larger than I need BUT About half way through the boot up the scripts changed

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

2010-08-05 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 09:12:20AM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote: On 8/5/2010 8:59 AM, Thomas H. George wrote: I followed these instructions chosing the Terminus font and a character height of 32 and then rebooted. The boot screen and initial scripts were easy to read, actually larger than I

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

2010-08-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-08-05 19:26 +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 05 Aug 2010, Thomas H. George wrote: I followed these instructions chosing the Terminus font and a character height of 32 and then rebooted. The boot screen and initial scripts were easy to read, actually larger than I need BUT

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

2010-08-05 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 8/5/2010 12:54 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: The solution is to use a bigger font, as I had tried to explain. Yes, that was your solution, until he explained (which you merrily missed apparently) that even though he used your fix the font resets back to a small size a little ways into the boot.

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

2010-08-05 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 8/5/10, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-08-05 19:26 +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 05 Aug 2010, Thomas H. George wrote: I followed these instructions chosing the Terminus font and a character height of 32 and then rebooted. The boot screen and initial scripts were easy

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

2010-08-05 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 8/5/10, Jordon Bedwell jor...@envygeeks.com wrote: On 8/5/2010 12:54 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: The solution is to use a bigger font, as I had tried to explain. Yes, that was your solution, until he explained (which you merrily missed apparently) that even though he used your fix the font

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

2010-08-05 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: I don't understand grub's menu.lst.  It begins with several entries and the beginning of the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST and within this the start of the default options list.  Within this list is #kopt=root=UUID=

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

2010-08-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-08-05 20:08 +0200, Javier Vasquez wrote: That's right. Actually I always look for full resolution on console. Before KMS, for some cards I had to load the corresponding module through /etc/modules and for some of those, I also had to provide the resolution parameters through

Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed

2010-08-05 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 02:49:48PM -0400, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: I don't understand grub's menu.lst.  It begins with several entries and the beginning of the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST and within this the start of the default