On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 07:04:47PM +0200, Patrick wrote
Hi,
I'm trying to get smaller fonts at boot time like the live cd
Actually, you can do that on a plain ordinary text console. See my
webpage http://www.waltdnes.org/tips_and_tricks/textmodes.html
Here's a snippet from my make menuconfig
Device drivers ---
Graphics support ---
[ ] Support for frame buffer devices
Console display driver support ---
--- VGA text console
[*] Video mode selection support
That's right, *NO* frame buffer support, but you can probably leave it
enabled if you wish. But you must have Video mode selection support
enabled. In lilo or grub, specify VGA=6 which gives a text console 640
pixels across by 480 scanlines. It uses the old CGA (8x8) font by
default. This gives 80 columns X 60 rows, but is painfull to read,
unless you have a honking big display. However, you can select any font
in the directory /usr/share/consolefonts by invoking it in /etc/rc.conf.
My /etc/rc.conf contains the line...
CONSOLEFONT=lat1-10
That's 8 x 10 pixels on a 640 x 480 text console, giving 80 x 48 (YES!)
text console mode. The 10-pixel-high font is much easier on the eyes
than the 8 x 8 CGA font on 640 x 400 mode, which gives 80 x 50 text
display (mode co80,50 in DOS).
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