First, some assertions: 1. resizecons cannot work without video mode files, which are produced by a program from the svgalib package.
2. svgalib is defunct, and was only applicable to linux kernels before 2.6 : there are patches around to enable it to be compiled, and some distros include it, but it seems very much a minority interest. 3. the console will be resized to suit the font when 'setfont' is run. 4. if the resulting font appears too tiny, you can pass video= arguments to grub, e.g. I use video="1024x768" on one of my machines which uses kms and a small (8x16) font. Known to work on framebuffers, including kms - I haven't built a non-framebuffer kernel in years. The proposal: If the first 3 assertions are correct, then I suggest that we should remove resizecons, and its manpage, from the build - with some seds (not yet tested), and in explaining the seds use a short summary of assertions 1-3, or even of 1-4. Comments ? ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
