Harry Putnam <[email protected]> wrote:
> Albert Hopkins <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > On Sunday, July 3 at 16:39 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
> >
> >> I've been booting with a framebuffer for some time. So long that I
> >> fear my kernel line may be out of date.
> >>
> >
> > A lot of people nowadays are using KMS. It's the one true way™ for
> > doing console/X mode settings. But if you have a procraprietary driver
> > it may not work.
> >
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml#doc_chap2
>
> this is a no X machine... it appears at the cited URL they expect you
> to be running xorg.
>
> What I'm after is a console Framebuffer with higher resolution to
> shink the fonts down and enlarge the terminal. (on a console)
>
> I've been able to do this for years using VESA.
>
I use uvesafb and it works without X -- I get 60x164, depending on the
resolution your mileage may vary.
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