On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 02:38:57AM +0000, Hans Malissa wrote:
> I've finished compiling LFS 8.2-systemd without problems, and now I'm
> starting to work on BLFS.
>
>
> I have a question regarding the "Setting a smaller screen size in grub"
> section in chapter 3: I've tried several screen size settings for the
> 'video=' parameter in the grub command line, but none of them seem to have an
> effect, and I always end up with an old fashioned 80x25 text display. I know
> that in another Linux distribution running on the same computer, the screen
> resolution is 1440x900, so it's not a hardware issue. I'm assuming that I
> need a particular kernel module to get this working, but I can't figure out
> which one.
>
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
Probably whichever framebuffer your video card uses - I think I
used to use video= on my servers, but I've now switched those to
using a larger font (14x28). On a radeon which will be using Xorg,
CONFIG_DRM_RADEON works - if it is a server, one of the CONFIG_FB
devices is probably the right choice.
On my test server with an old radeon I also dropped back to 80x25
when I upgraded to 8.2, and failed to load the intended large font.
That was because my notes suggested I only needed a few of the
radeon firmware blobs : in fact, on my previous build I had dropped
all of them into /lib/firmware - adding a few more made the large
font work, so if you are on radeon or amdgpu then you might need the
firmware to get a framebuffer console working.
ĸen
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