On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 11:19:35PM +0200, Martin Neitzel wrote:
> EDID provides both a coarse display size (height & width in cm) as
> part of the "EDID Basic display parameters" and mm-exact sizes
> along with every "EDID Detailed Timing Descriptor" (which also
> specify the size in pixels). So
ST> That of course means being able to read the DPI from somewhere, but isn't
ST> that a thing that EDID does?
RVP> There's no DPI present in the EDID data, as far as I know (DisplayID
RVP> has horiz. and vert. pixel counts which could be used in combination
RVP> with the display size values).
On Thu, 11 Apr 2024, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
For 4K displays maybe, but on any laptop I have at hand - without prehaps a
"Retina" or equivalent display, the small font is readable enough and
actually the more information makes installing, merging files reading dmesg
much much easier. Up to my
RVP wrote:
and the system will now use the larger font if you have a high enough
display. Otherwise, you would end up with an unreadable chars. on, say, 4K
displays.
Surely this should be against the display density? (i.e. DPI)
That of course means being able to read the DPI from somewhere,
> does it have consequences to change constty to ttyE0? loosing "console"
> status?
In practice, no, unless you change to serial console in the
bootloader. I do that on all my systems.
--
Benny
Hi,
RVP wrote:
and the system will now use the larger font if you have a high enough
display. Otherwise, you would end up with an unreadable chars. on,
say, 4K
displays.
For 4K displays maybe, but on any laptop I have at hand - without
prehaps a "Retina" or equivalent display, the small
On Thu, 11 Apr 2024, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
Here I found that enabling fonts helps. To restore the old behavior, I
explicitely need to set:
setvar ttyE0 font Terminus16B-ISO8859-1
apparently otherwise something which looks like 32B seems to be used...
There are 2 fonts
Hi,
comparing to my old 9.3 system and doing some experimenting... I found
some difference and have questions.
Riccardo Mottola wrote:
I used the sysupgrade method for the first time, I hope I didn't mess
up with etcupdate step with required a lot of manual work.
Also, since the console
Hi!
I just upgraded from 9.3 to 10 on amd64 with AMD Radeon
I used the sysupgrade method for the first time, I hope I didn't mess up
with etcupdate step with required a lot of manual work.
Also, since the console was in 80x24 mode, checking diff of etcfiles was
really cumbersome.
I can
