On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:15:46PM +0200, Ottavio Campana wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 06:31:57AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 11:20:17AM +0200, Ottavio Campana wrote: > > > i'm becoming blind because of the size of the characters displayed on my > > > monitor. > > > I've tried to do fbset 800x600-56 but I get > > > ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: invalid argument > > > > It means that the mode you tried isn't usable on that fb. Not sure what > > modes are available for fb, so you'll have to try them out. > > why can't I find a working mode different from the one I currently use? > Could it be a kernel problem? Or is my framebuffer that has just got one > mode?
Framebuffer and/or monitor could be single mode. You can however recompile the kernel using the 12x22 Sun Font, and not have the problem (larger font). -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'