On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 16:14:44 +0200 viverna <vive...@inventati.org> wrote:
Swapping the order of your comments. > Only I think pure console in Linux should be better treated (for > example 16M colors (if framebuffer is enabled it is possible), > support for very large font, better support for SGR parameters in > ANSI escape code, maybe Sixel. Err, AFAIK, the console is just a minimmal text based output to provide information in the event of error in the intial boot up and yes, ever since 1920x1024(?) capable screen became common place, you might have to quIck with a magnifying glass if you need to see those initial few lines. However, there are options in grub.cfg(?) to improve stuff where you can set certain parameters to improve how messages are displayed. Being no expert on this and just crawling through my current grub.cfb which is the result of hacking to fix similar problems in the past, there are settings to do with font and gfxmode, then you can invoke gfxterm and switch the display to that. .......extract ........... if loadfont $font ; then set gfxmode=1024x768 load_video insmod gfxterm set locale_dir=$prefix/locale set lang=en_AU insmod gettext fi terminal_output gfxterm ....end of extract...... Swapping from the default of 640x460 to 1024x768 enabled me to clearly read the boot up text on the console after the initial few lines. In another section, it has the option of loading a video driver or two(mods in i386 section), which might help. The the solution of course has always been to have a simpler monitor to pug in to sort out the initial book problems. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
