Nicolas George composed on 2016-09-08 10:07 (UTC+0200):
Felix Miata composed:
The simplest way is to direct KMS's framebuffer to use a lower resolution than the native hi-res one by including a video= parameter on the kernel cmdline. The lower the resolution, the larger the standard (usually 16x9) framebuffer font becomes. On a 1920x1200 display I typically use video=1440x900@60; on a 1920x1080, 1280x720@60; depending on size of display and actual resolutions it supports. Using video=1920x1080 on a 2560x1440 display should produce a font 177% of the physical size of the one used natively.
It may be ONE OF THE simplest ways, but it a very bad one: screen have a native resolution, operating at a different one requires scaling: the resulting text will be much less readable than with the better solution of using a larger font.
Have you ever tried it? Default framebuffer fonts are quite adaptable to different resolutions, as they are generally produced with many more pix than typical GUI fonts. All that extra size enhances readability, compensating rather nicely for the loss in apparent resolution.
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