David Wright wrote: ... > For 1280x720, you could try 1920x1080, or 960x540, according > to how large you want the characters. With a screen having > a wide aspect ratio, you might try 1600x900, 800x450, and > so on (ie native resolution ÷ small integer).
thank you, i've already got that taken care of by the what i wrote in the other message. it wasn't enough to just change the font, but rerunning the configure step which copied the relevant files to /etc/<someplace> so they were available during early boot stage. i've not had any more lock ups recently but i'm also running a different kernel now so perhaps it was a bug in there someplace that got squashed. for that i would need some kind of way to trace everything that is running and put it in a log that persists, but not so much that it plugs up my entire system. i'm hoping it's just fixed and gone, but ... songbird