When Fedora 12 loads i915 during initramfs probing on my system, the
driver automatically installs a tiny 160x64 font. How can I prevent it
from doing this, or tell it to use a larger 80x25 font instead?
Is this documented anywhere?
In addition, are the error messages in the following dmesg log
> When Fedora 12 loads i915 during initramfs probing on my system, the
> driver automatically installs a tiny 160x64 font. How can I prevent it
> from doing this, or tell it to use a larger 80x25 font instead?
>
> Is this documented anywhere?
Not really. Here is how you enable larger fonts. Con
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, James Simmons wrote:
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> > When Fedora 12 loads i915 during initramfs probing on my system, the
> > driver automatically installs a tiny 160x64 font. How can I prevent it
> > from doing this, or tell it to use a larger 80x25 font instead?
> >
> > Is this documented anywhere
FYI the legacy non-KMS path (nomodeset) is deprecated in kernel and
was recently dropped from the X driver. You should be able to use
fbset to change the resolution of your fbcon though.
~ C.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, James Simmons wrote:
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since 2.6.32 you can change the resolution with video=VGA-1:640x480 boot
parameter and emulate the old behaviour.
On 01/20/2010 05:39 PM, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Corbin Simpson wrote:
>
>
>> FYI the legacy non-KMS path (nomodeset) is deprecated in kernel and
>> was recently
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Corbin Simpson wrote:
> FYI the legacy non-KMS path (nomodeset) is deprecated in kernel and
> was recently dropped from the X driver. You should be able to use
> fbset to change the resolution of your fbcon though.
I tried fbset, and it was distinctly unsuccessful. When I ra
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Tomas M. wrote:
> since 2.6.32 you can change the resolution with video=VGA-1:640x480 boot
> parameter and emulate the old behaviour.
That works even with Fedora-12, which uses a 2.6.31-based kernel.
Thanks.
Alan Stern
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