On 12/15/2013 08:16 PM, Adam Jensen wrote:
On 12/14/2013 04:46 PM, Gabriel Guzman wrote:
On 12/14, Adam Jensen wrote:
Did you get a framebuffer (no X11) console working with a decent
resolution
font and [much] more than 25 lines of 80 characters? If so, how did
you do
it - what's your recipe?
just boot the machine (: no tweaking required.
I guess if it's not working for you, then something is wrong, since I
didn't have to do anything to get it working on my end.
I haven't tried to adjust the framebuffer settings, or change the
font as the default is fine for me.
For the sake of others who might also be confused by this, the
framebuffer console is probably configured and *on by default* when
5.4-release (or -stable or -current) is installed on machine with an
appropriate *intel* graphics device. I say "probably" because I haven't
verified this on an intel graphics equipped machine. Machines without an
appropriate graphics device won't/can't have a framebuffer console (yet).
Apparently, a framebuffer console is configured and *on by default* when
5.4-current is installed on machine with an appropriate *radeon*
graphics device. I upgraded a radeon equipped machine to 5.4-current
this evening and got to see the framebuffer console in action, briefly
(the kernel panicked during boot). The console text is still quite a bit
larger than I would like.
If anyone has knowledge of how the framebuffer console is configured and
controlled, a short tutorial would be grand!
Here is a dmesg for the machine that panicked with today's pull & build
of 5.4-current. 5.4-release was reinstalled to get the dmesg.
[dmesg]: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=PtQdaE5R
