FYI the legacy non-KMS path (nomodeset) is deprecated in kernel and was recently dropped from the X driver. You should be able to use fbset to change the resolution of your fbcon though.
~ C. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Alan Stern <st...@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, James Simmons wrote: > >> >> > When Fedora 12 loads i915 during initramfs probing on my system, the >> > driver automatically installs a tiny 160x64 font. How can I prevent it >> > from doing this, or tell it to use a larger 80x25 font instead? >> > >> > Is this documented anywhere? >> >> Not really. Here is how you enable larger fonts. Configure your kernel. Go >> into the Graphics support menu. This the the menu that has the >> DRI/Framebuffer and backlight options. You will see a "Console display >> driver support" option. Select it and you will have a new menu. You will >> see the option "Select compiled-in fonts". Enable that and select the font >> you want. Most likely it will be the Sun 12x22 font. Build your kernel. >> >> Their might be one more setup to do. Some distros like to load a console >> font at boot up. Depending on the distro if that is the case you will have >> to disable it. > > It turns out that preventing the mode switch is easier. Finding it > took a certain amount of digging, but the "nomodeset" kernel parameter > prevents the console from leaving normal VGA mode. If only it were > documented... > > Alan Stern > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the > world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference > attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through > interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev > -- > _______________________________________________ > Dri-devel mailing list > Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel > -- Only fools are easily impressed by what is only barely beyond their reach. ~ Unknown Corbin Simpson <mostawesomed...@gmail.com> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
