On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 07:04:47PM +0200, Patrick wrote > Hi, > > I'm trying to get smaller fonts at boot time like the live cd
Actually, you can do that on a plain ordinary text console. See my webpage http://www.waltdnes.org/tips_and_tricks/textmodes.html Here's a snippet from my make menuconfig Device drivers ---> Graphics support ---> [ ] Support for frame buffer devices Console display driver support ---> --- VGA text console [*] Video mode selection support That's right, *NO* frame buffer support, but you can probably leave it enabled if you wish. But you must have "Video mode selection support" enabled. In lilo or grub, specify VGA=6 which gives a text console 640 pixels across by 480 scanlines. It uses the old CGA (8x8) font by default. This gives 80 columns X 60 rows, but is painfull to read, unless you have a honking big display. However, you can select any font in the directory /usr/share/consolefonts by invoking it in /etc/rc.conf. My /etc/rc.conf contains the line... CONSOLEFONT="lat1-10" That's 8 x 10 pixels on a 640 x 480 text console, giving 80 x 48 (YES!) text console mode. The 10-pixel-high font is much easier on the eyes than the 8 x 8 CGA font on 640 x 400 mode, which gives 80 x 50 text display ("mode co80,50" in DOS). -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure, and has a lower TCO, than linux. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
