Re: [gentoo-user] X Windows setup questions on my new machine
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 08:26:25AM -0400, Willie Wong wrote Also, have you tried just using larger fonts on the console? If you emerge sys-apps/kbd, there should be some fonts in /usr/share/consolefonts. You can use setfont name to test which one you want to use (some of them are bigger fonts). You may also want to try media-fonts/terminus-font (what I use), it claims to have a 16x32 variant which is twice as large as the default console fonts. Thanks for the idea. I'm now using sun12x22. It gives me 160 columns by 54 rows. It's perfectly readable, although the right half of the text console screen is blank most of the time. Oh well, I'll probably be using vsplit in vim a lot more now. After finding a font you like you can set it in /etc/conf.d/consolefont to automatically load at boot time. I used to do that with vga=6 in /etc/lilo.conf and lat1-10 in /etc/conf.d/consolefont which combined to give me a nice crisp 48 row display. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
Re: [gentoo-user] X Windows setup questions on my new machine
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:13:13AM +0100, Mick wrote: However, my new machine's Intel integrated graphics chip doesn't agree. X will *NOT* work unless I enable i915 DRM driver in make menuconfig, like so... * Intel 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G (i915 driver) --- This results in framebuffer being *FORCED* on. * Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support -*- Lowlevel video output switch controls -*- Support for frame buffer devices --- Walter, have you tried to find the vga modes that your card supports using vbetools (you'll need vbetest) or running 'hwinfo --vbe' ? With the intel driver and X, he needs to have kernel mode setting enabled. I seem to remember that it doesn't play well with the vga mode setting for framebuffers. But Walter: you should be able to add a line on your lilo/grub prompt for the Intel KMS to set the display resolution at boot time. See the Kernel documentation in /usr/src/linux for the Intel GMA driver for more info on that. (Technically you should be able to rung the console at a different resolution than X; there may require another tweak at the kernel level to make the switch to VT after starting X play nice. See the gentoo-wiki article on Kernel Mode Setting.) Also, have you tried just using larger fonts on the console? If you emerge sys-apps/kbd, there should be some fonts in /usr/share/consolefonts. You can use setfont name to test which one you want to use (some of them are bigger fonts). You may also want to try media-fonts/terminus-font (what I use), it claims to have a 16x32 variant which is twice as large as the default console fonts. After finding a font you like you can set it in /etc/conf.d/consolefont to automatically load at boot time. Cheers, W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
[gentoo-user] X Windows setup questions on my new machine
1) Text sucks on webpages, and other GUI apps. For a sample, see... http://clients.teksavvy.com/~walterdnes/misc/webtext.png where I snipped 2 sentences from the CNN webpage. How can I fix it? 2) Back in 2000, one of the things that drove me to linux was the availability of true console text mode, and also true console text mode apps. Up till now, I've used text mode when possible, because it's a lot easier on my eyes. I'm realistic about using X for web browsing and spreadsheets, and other GUI-oriented stuff. But email and text files should be textmode, dammit. However, my new machine's Intel integrated graphics chip doesn't agree. X will *NOT* work unless I enable i915 DRM driver in make menuconfig, like so... * Intel 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G (i915 driver) --- This results in framebuffer being *FORCED* on. * Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support -*- Lowlevel video output switch controls -*- Support for frame buffer devices --- Let's just say that framebuffer video on a 1920x1200 24 LCD sucketh to the max. I get 74 rows by some ridiculous number of columns of miniscule, virtually unreadable font. This is with the default VGA boot, not with VGA=6. Is there any way I can get rid of framebuffer mode, while retaining X functionality? Why the bleep does X Windows require framebuffer, anyways? The lspci -vv output for my video card is listed below... 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Clarkdale Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7636 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 31 Region 0: Memory at fb80 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M] Region 2: Memory at d000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 4: I/O ports at cc00 [size=8] Expansion ROM at unassigned [disabled] Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit- Address: fee0f00c Data: 4199 Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features AFCap: TP+ FLR+ AFCtrl: FLR- AFStatus: TP- Kernel driver in use: i915 -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
Re: [gentoo-user] X Windows setup questions on my new machine
On 26 June 2010 22:36, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: 1) Text sucks on webpages, and other GUI apps. For a sample, see... http://clients.teksavvy.com/~walterdnes/misc/webtext.png where I snipped 2 sentences from the CNN webpage. How can I fix it? 2) Back in 2000, one of the things that drove me to linux was the availability of true console text mode, and also true console text mode apps. Up till now, I've used text mode when possible, because it's a lot easier on my eyes. I'm realistic about using X for web browsing and spreadsheets, and other GUI-oriented stuff. But email and text files should be textmode, dammit. However, my new machine's Intel integrated graphics chip doesn't agree. X will *NOT* work unless I enable i915 DRM driver in make menuconfig, like so... * Intel 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G (i915 driver) --- This results in framebuffer being *FORCED* on. * Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support -*- Lowlevel video output switch controls -*- Support for frame buffer devices --- Let's just say that framebuffer video on a 1920x1200 24 LCD sucketh to the max. I get 74 rows by some ridiculous number of columns of miniscule, virtually unreadable font. This is with the default VGA boot, not with VGA=6. Is there any way I can get rid of framebuffer mode, while retaining X functionality? Why the bleep does X Windows require framebuffer, anyways? The lspci -vv output for my video card is listed below... 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Clarkdale Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7636 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 31 Region 0: Memory at fb80 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M] Region 2: Memory at d000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 4: I/O ports at cc00 [size=8] Expansion ROM at unassigned [disabled] Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit- Address: fee0f00c Data: 4199 Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features AFCap: TP+ FLR+ AFCtrl: FLR- AFStatus: TP- Kernel driver in use: i915 -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org I had a similar problem with fonts in X and I used the following walkthrough guide to fix it: http://www.kev009.com/wp/2009/12/getting-beautiful-fonts-in-gentoo-linux/ Hope this helps, Chris.
Re: [gentoo-user] X Windows setup questions on my new machine
On Saturday 26 June 2010 23:48:46 Christopher Swift wrote: On 26 June 2010 22:36, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: 1) Text sucks on webpages, and other GUI apps. For a sample, see... http://clients.teksavvy.com/~walterdnes/misc/webtext.png where I snipped 2 sentences from the CNN webpage. How can I fix it? 2) Back in 2000, one of the things that drove me to linux was the availability of true console text mode, and also true console text mode apps. Up till now, I've used text mode when possible, because it's a lot easier on my eyes. I'm realistic about using X for web browsing and spreadsheets, and other GUI-oriented stuff. But email and text files should be textmode, dammit. However, my new machine's Intel integrated graphics chip doesn't agree. X will *NOT* work unless I enable i915 DRM driver in make menuconfig, like so... * Intel 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G (i915 driver) --- This results in framebuffer being *FORCED* on. * Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support -*- Lowlevel video output switch controls -*- Support for frame buffer devices --- Let's just say that framebuffer video on a 1920x1200 24 LCD sucketh to the max. I get 74 rows by some ridiculous number of columns of miniscule, virtually unreadable font. This is with the default VGA boot, not with VGA=6. Is there any way I can get rid of framebuffer mode, while retaining X functionality? Why the bleep does X Windows require framebuffer, anyways? The lspci -vv output for my video card is listed below... 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Clarkdale Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7636 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 31 Region 0: Memory at fb80 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M] Region 2: Memory at d000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 4: I/O ports at cc00 [size=8] Expansion ROM at unassigned [disabled] Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit- Address: fee0f00c Data: 4199 Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features AFCap: TP+ FLR+ AFCtrl: FLR- AFStatus: TP- Kernel driver in use: i915 -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org I had a similar problem with fonts in X and I used the following walkthrough guide to fix it: http://www.kev009.com/wp/2009/12/getting-beautiful-fonts-in-gentoo-linux/ Walter, have you tried to find the vga modes that your card supports using vbetools (you'll need vbetest) or running 'hwinfo --vbe' ? Then you can experiment with the different settings until you get a font size that suits your needs. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
