On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:32:38 +0000
Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:

> On Friday 16 January 2009 19:27:53 Paul Hartman wrote:
> 
> > Now I just need to find a good consolefont that doesn't look
> > "squished" in 16:9 aspect ratio. Right now I'm using ter-112n (from
> > terminus-fonts) and it's pretty good but still a little too wide for
> > my taste.  
> 
> Thanks for the pointer to that rather nice font. I think the problem,
> if yours is like mine in having a 1280x800 screen, is that the frame
> buffer simply takes a standard 4:3 screen resolution and stretches it
> to fit. Thus I have a distorted 1024x768 console.

I also have a 1280x800 screen and uvesafb works for me without
distortion with this kernel video option in grub.conf: 

 video=uvesafb:1280x800-32,mtrr:3,ywrap

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