Re: [blfs-support] Screen Resolution and Font Size of Virtual Consoles

2016-06-14 Thread Richard G. Crockett
> > Michael Shell wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 01:40:56 -0500 > > "Douglas R. Reno" wrote: > > > >> I would try appending "video=" to the end of your kernel > >> command line, e.g. > >> > >> video=1024x768 > > > > > > FWIW, this one can be tricky because if using the DRI/DRM framebuffer > > driv

Re: [blfs-support] Screen Resolution and Font Size of Virtual Consoles

2016-06-14 Thread Michael Shell
On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 00:39:43 +0100 Ken Moffat wrote: > It isn't a problem - it's the user's system, he or she can decide > what suits. Yeah, some monitors scale certain resolutions poorly. They supposedly work best at their native (max) resolution, but with the fonts that come with the base kern

Re: [blfs-support] Screen Resolution and Font Size of Virtual Consoles

2016-06-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 01:15:37PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Michael Shell wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 01:40:56 -0500 > > "Douglas R. Reno" wrote: > > > > > I would try appending "video=" to the end of your kernel > > > command line, e.g. > > > > > > video=1024x768 > > > > > > FWIW, this

Re: [blfs-support] Screen Resolution and Font Size of Virtual Consoles

2016-06-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Michael Shell wrote: On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 01:40:56 -0500 "Douglas R. Reno" wrote: I would try appending "video=" to the end of your kernel command line, e.g. video=1024x768 FWIW, this one can be tricky because if using the DRI/DRM framebuffer drivers (e.g., DRM_RADEON, etc.) the video outpu

Re: [blfs-support] Screen Resolution and Font Size of Virtual Consoles

2016-06-14 Thread Michael Shell
On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 01:40:56 -0500 "Douglas R. Reno" wrote: > I would try appending "video=" to the end of your kernel > command line, e.g. > > video=1024x768 FWIW, this one can be tricky because if using the DRI/DRM framebuffer drivers (e.g., DRM_RADEON, etc.) the video output port may also h

[blfs-support] kdenlive or QT problem from 7.8 book

2016-06-14 Thread Arnie Stender
Hi All, I apologize for not following up after my last post. You guys bailed me out again and I was able to continue building my 7.8 system. The main purpose for building this system in the first place was to do sound and video editing so I built kdenlive. All went well and I started playi

Re: [blfs-support] Screen Resolution and Font Size of Virtual Consoles

2016-06-14 Thread LM
Last time I had this issue, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to resize my virtual terminal only to find out that if I wanted to use framebuffer mode, that wasn't a good idea. I read several recommendations for using a larger font instead of resizing the terminal. Most of the recomme

Re: [blfs-support] Plasma starts with black screen

2016-06-14 Thread Cliff McDiarmid
    Sent: Monday, June 13, 2016 at 9:09 PM From: "Bruce Dubbs" To: "BLFS Support List" Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Plasma starts with black screen Martin Ward wrote: > On 13/06/16 14:40, Cliff McDiarmid wrote: >> Hi >> I'm resurrecting this thread because this is the 4th time of building >> Pla