On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 11:08:10PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I have a similar problem with one of my computers, which has a 4K > screen. I use Xfce, but lightdm still produces the login screen, and it > is tiny, unreadable. Luckily, all I need do is type in my password and > hit enter, so it's not a huge deal, but it would be nice if I could > double the size of the minute login window.
> I haven't tried doing this, but could you boot to a root prompt, log > in, then do 'start x' or whatever the current command to engage the GUI > is? Oh, and I tried this as a solution to my problem, but as soon as > the boot process starts the dmesg-type text scrolling past jumps down to > about 4-5 points, again, unreadable. > > I think the problem is that the initial boot process assumes a VGA > display, and if you're using something higher, too bad for you. ---- Not to change the subject from the sideways greeter screen, but John's "boot to root" may may be a decent approach; startx is how we did things, back when 386 CPUs roamed the Earth, memory was too small, and you couldn't run X and chew gum at the same time. :-) I'll see if I still have my ancient sysadmin notebooks somewhere. Anyway, if I screw stuff up too badly, there's always ssh, or live DVS boot. ---- A few days ago, while configuring, I had problems with TOO LARGE (and sideways) boot text ... which whizzes by too fast to read, but occasionally briefly spews an error that I can investigate later. So, I may have a fix for John's tiny text, the reverse of what I had to do: First, learn about your video modes with the command hwinfo --framebuffer John can run his display at a lower resolution during GRUB. For my 1280x1024 screen turned sideways, I changed my: /etc/default/grub file from the single uncommented line: GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480 ... to these two lines: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="fbcon=rotate:3" GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024 ... eventually, after much frobbing. rotate:3 is screen turned clockwise 90 degrees, rotate:1 is counterclockwise, and rotate:2 is for acrobats and sloths. :-) ---- So, maybe the holes in our swiss cheese of knowledge have successfully overlapped in this case (or is that queso?). Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com
