On Sat 17 Sep 2016 at 02:34:11 (-0400), Jude DaShiell wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2016, David Wright wrote: > > >Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 09:38:31 > >From: David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> > >Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re: How to arrange for booting to console > >Resent-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:43:51 +0000 (UTC) > >Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > >I missed this reply until Lisi bumped the thread. > >These are my opinions, based of the pathetically little I know. > > > >On Sun 11 Sep 2016 at 18:52:59 (-0400), Harry Putnam wrote: > >>The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> writes: > >> > >>>On 2016-09-11 at 17:04, Harry Putnam wrote: > >>> > >>>>How can I arrange to boot to console mode rather than X. With the > >>>>ability to startx when I feel like it. > >>>> > >> > >>[...] > >> > >>>The way I usually do it is to uninstall gdm, kdm, xdm, et cetera; those > >>>are the packages which hook in to provide a graphical login prompt. With > >>>none of them present, what you get is the traditional text-mode login > >>>prompt, and your configured shell after login. > >>> > >> > >>[...] > >> > >>That sounds promissing. > > > >It ought to. It's the display managers that start X. If they're not > >there, you've to start it yourself with startx. > > > >>Used one of the methods below and quickly > >>realized I was expecting a nice big framebuffered text console with a > >>much higher resolution than the standard. > > > >But you got ... what? > > > >If you want to know whether you're looking at a nice big framebuffered > >text console, install fbset and type > >$ fbset > >If you see something like: > > > >mode "1280x800" > > geometry 1280 800 1280 800 32 > > timings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > > accel true > > rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,0/0 > >endmode > > > >then you are. > > > >BTW What's the "standard" resolution of which you speak? > > > >>(Previously my OS of choice > >>was gentoo), But of course all that has to be setup.... as I recall it > >>is done with a few extra bits on the kernel line grub.conf.... > >> > >>Using grub2 I'm thoroughly lost what or where one would edit to allow ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑ > >>a console frame buffer. > > [snipped my response which was not grub-related] > > > edit /etc/default/grub then run grub-mkconfig to apply your changes > like this: > grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
That's the "where"; what's the "what" ? Cheers, David.