On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 04:53, Robert Latest <boblat...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello folks, > > since many kernels ago I've used VGA console fonts that have been more > pleasant than the standard 80x25 screen (mode 775). However, since my > recent upgrade to lenny, this often doesn't work any more. Sometimes I > get the font I want, sometimes I get the 80x25 one, and sometimes I > get asked which mode I want (as if I had given the "vga=ask" boot > option). I don't know why this is so erratic, but my system seems to > slowly settle for the "ask" way of doing things. > > Well, I now want this to stop. A font that I really like is the one > Knoppix uses. I think it is a framebuffer mode (it has the pengiun > logo, too, which I don't care much for). How can I activate a mode > like this? I'm running the 2.6.26-1-686 kernel from lenny. > > Speaking of kernel: I noticed that in lenny there aren't any -k7 > kernels any more (or rather, the package is "for transition only"). > Does this mean that the 686 and k7 branches have been merged?
Yes, 686 is used for Intel and AMD now, unless of course you have a CPU that supports 64 bits and you want that, in which case you use AMD64 for both. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org