Re: Tiny fonts, was Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

[songbird]

David Wright wrote:
...
> For 1280x720, you could try 1920x1080, or 960x540, according
> to how large you want the characters. With a screen having
> a wide aspect ratio, you might try 1600x900, 800x450, and
> so on (ie native resolution ÷ small integer).

  thank you, i've already got that taken care of by the
what i wrote in the other message.  it wasn't enough to
just change the font, but rerunning the configure step
which copied the relevant files to /etc/ so
they were available during early boot stage.

  i've not had any more lock ups recently but i'm also
running a different kernel now so perhaps it was a bug in
there someplace that got squashed.  for that i would need
some kind of way to trace everything that is running and
put it in a log that persists, but not so much that it
plugs up my entire system.  i'm hoping it's just fixed and
gone, but ...


  songbird

Tiny fonts, was Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

[David Wright]

On Thu 10 Mar 2022 at 08:44:10 (-0500), songbird wrote:
> Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:

> > Did you take a look into `dmesg -l err` and `Xorg.log` in this case?
> 
>   no, i didn't, too hard for me to see or sit to squint at the 
> screen to be able to read.  the login prompt and screen fonts
> are so small that i type it all in by memory and can usually 
> get it right.  i used to have it set up where all the terminal 
> fonts would come up with a big enough font that i'd not have 
> that problem, but i've not been dealing much with the raw 
> terminal screens enough to do it on this system yet.

The trick I use to workaround this problem is:

. When the grub screen appears, press "E" instead of Return,

. Look at the Grub script that appears (you don't need to be
  able to actually /read/ it).

. The bottom line is the initrd line, preceded by a comment line,
  The third line from the bottom is the kernel line.

. Press  enough times to reach the bottom (you can just see
  the cursor appear below the bottom line), then  twice, followed
  by . That puts the cursor at the end of the kernel line.

. Type  video=1280x720

. Type Ctrl-X to boot.

For 1280x720, you could try 1920x1080, or 960x540, according
to how large you want the characters. With a screen having
a wide aspect ratio, you might try 1600x900, 800x450, and
so on (ie native resolution ÷ small integer).

Cheers,
David.