Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 03:18, Austin wrote: > > I just noticed the backgrounds on the virtual console. > > While it is the same image (from the same file, I assume), it looks > > great in gnome (console 7), but TERRIBLE on VC 1. So bad, it's hard to > > read the text. > > > > This isn't a big problem, since it doesn't seem to appear on VC 2-6 (is > > this intentional?), but it is quite ugly on VC 1. Lilo has been set to > > video mode 788 by drakx. This is a 1024x768 LCD laptop display. It > > should look better than that, no? > > Not really. You're scaling from 800x600 (that's what 788 is) on a > 1024x768 LCD. LCDs are really rather poor at scaling to anything other > than integer multiples of their native resolution, so 800x600 on a > 1024x768 display will generally look rather dodgy. If you change to > vga=791, for 1024x768, it'll look much better.
Maybe, but the problem from my standpoint isn't the stretching, it's the choice of backgrounds. There was a really great "9.2"-only background (the one with the numbers in the lower-right hand of the display). Now it seems to have disappeared. It branded the consoles without getting in the way, and it allowed the use of any resolution without stretching poorly (since it was dark grey on black). I don't know, but maybe it was an oversight in the latest packages and initrd is just usng the bootsplash by default? Is there any chance of getting back the less-obtrusive VC background? Or is that now a hand-tweak-only option? - John
