Ken Moffat wrote:
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.
For me it depends on the font I want to use. On a sysV system I have
terminus fonts installed and set FONT=ter-128n. Of course that doesn't
come into effect until the console init script is run during boot.
I do not know how to do the same thing in systemd, but the simple command
is 'setfont $FONT' where FONT is located in /usr/share/fonts. I do not
think setfont understands ttf fonts, but see the man page for details.
-- Bruce
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