On Mon, Sep 5, 2016, at 12:01, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > Is there any way to get a regular console under Debian Jessie? > I don't use a GUI, just plain old CLI, and working on hi-res with "tiny" > little fonts is extremely painful. > I have tried playing with "console-setup". No results. >
Yes. What you are seeing is a "frame buffer" console. In most cases, the X driver requires this. But if you are not using an X server, you can disable it. The trick is to blacklist the right driver. For example, if you have a radeon chipset, blacklisting the radeon driver might accomplish this. Create a file such as /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf. Put a line in it which says blacklist radeon Save the file and exit the editor. Whenever you blacklist a module, it is a good idea to rebuild your initial RAM file system, although if the module is not loaded until after the permanent root file system is mounted read-only, this is not strictly required. To do this, issue update-initramfs -u -k $(uname -r) Then shutdown and reboot. To determine which module to blacklist, issue dmesg|less and see if you can figure out which module is loading. You can also issue lsmod|less to see which modules are loaded. Perhaps you can identify which module is the frame buffer driver this way. Knowing your video chipset helps give you a clue also. Issue lspci|less and look for VGA. This may give you a clue as to the identity of the frame buffer driver. -- .''`. Stephen Powell <[email protected]> : :' : `. `'` `-
