On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:32:38 +0000 Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> On Friday 16 January 2009 19:27:53 Paul Hartman wrote: > > > Now I just need to find a good consolefont that doesn't look > > "squished" in 16:9 aspect ratio. Right now I'm using ter-112n (from > > terminus-fonts) and it's pretty good but still a little too wide for > > my taste. > > Thanks for the pointer to that rather nice font. I think the problem, > if yours is like mine in having a 1280x800 screen, is that the frame > buffer simply takes a standard 4:3 screen resolution and stretches it > to fit. Thus I have a distorted 1024x768 console. I also have a 1280x800 screen and uvesafb works for me without distortion with this kernel video option in grub.conf: video=uvesafb:1280x800-32,mtrr:3,ywrap -- »Q« Kleeneness is next to Gödelness.