Hi Guys, or Gals, as the Case May Be, Since I may have to deal with a text only virtual console for some time before I build a window manager, I need a comfortable environment. I managed to get gpm working by using my host system to examine the protocols and write these to the proper file, but getting the screen resolution and font size set has me baffled. I'm 58 years old. My eyes ain't so good. I need big fonts. I literally cannot see the writing on my big, high resolution monitor that always manages to set itself to 1680x1050 no matter what I do. (It's 18x11")
Two days of googling suggested I could change the screen resolution through grub, but nothing I do there has any effect (/etc/default/grub, GRUB_GFXMODE). No directives regarding font size have any effect (/etc/defaults/console-setup). I see that the "standard" font has size limits. OK. Fine, so I need to use another font, but what is going on? Where ARE my fonts? And what numbers can I use? In the LFS book (7.9), I followed the trail to the docs in /usr/share/doc/kbd-2.0.3 and learned all kinds of cool stuff, but no solution to this silly but extremely exasperating problem. I guess, in the spirit of an LFS build, we like to delve into the internals. We like to know where *everything* is in our OS, like fonts, but also what happens in the boot process, like setting screen resolution. I have missing information. I realize that this is two different problems: fonts and their size, and the screen resolution of virtual consoles, but understanding either one would probably solve this problem. I would not even ask unless I'd done my homework, or, at least honestly tried. It's quite a jump from LFS to BLFS. You are probably right to conclude that anyone who successfully navigates an LFS build ain't no dummy and doesn't need a lot of handholding, but, still, it's a tricky transition. Really, really looking forward to writing some Python and getting ImageMagick going, (building an image manipulation server able to be accessed over ssh, that's the plan) but I need fonts my tired old eyeballs can see. Feel free to knock me over with a feather for something I should have learned or known already. :) Cheers, Rick
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