Hi, On Wed, 02 May 2007 08:14:03 -0400 Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What does "the font doesn't resize" mean exactly and how's that > > looking errorneous to you? > > It's not that it's erroneous. I'm just being a bit anal. In all my > other Gentoo installations, when the computer boots up, the font > starts out large, then there is a sort of blip and the penguin > graphic appears and the font becomes smaller. I'm not a programmer, > but was told this had something to do with the framebuffer. This > large font is driving me nuts because any command issued at the > command line, for instance lspci results in half the information > scrolling off screen unless you use a pipe. I know that isn't all > that big a deal, but it's not what I'm used to. Hm, OK, I see. Does your kernel's command line contain a valid "video=..." setting? Are you sure you're handing it a recognized mode string? (I.e. when there's something like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or so, the values aren't freely configurable but must match a valid video mode for the framebuffer driver in question -- most of them use those from the "modedb"). Also, you'll need not just framebuffer, but framebuffer console support, too. The vesa(-tng) driver is loaded early in the kernel's boot process. Maybe you find some mention of an error in your kernel log ring buffer (dmesg)? -hwh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
