Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-17 Thread Felix Miata
rhkra...@gmail.com composed on 2016-09-15 07:28 (UTC-0400): ... my only reason for writing is to suggest (to the OP) that he consider using a fairly inexpensive digital flat screen tv as his monitor. I currently use a 1080P 32" T that I bought for under $200 (on sale, somewhere, sometime,

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-15 Thread David Wright
On Thu 15 Sep 2016 at 07:28:16 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > TL;DR (Too Long, Didn't Read)--I didn't anticipate ever using that little > abbreviation. > > Anyway, my only reason for writing is to suggest (to the OP) that he consider > using a fairly inexpensive digital flat screen tv as

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-15 Thread David Wright
On Thu 15 Sep 2016 at 05:11:26 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2016-09-14 22:59 (UTC-0500): > > >On Wed 14 Sep 2016 at 05:43:24 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > > >>David Wright composed on 2016-09-13 13:36 (UTC-0500): > > >The person to complain to about not being able to

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-15 Thread rhkramer
TL;DR (Too Long, Didn't Read)--I didn't anticipate ever using that little abbreviation. Anyway, my only reason for writing is to suggest (to the OP) that he consider using a fairly inexpensive digital flat screen tv as his monitor. I currently use a 1080P 32" T that I bought for under $200

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-15 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2016-09-14 22:59 (UTC-0500): On Wed 14 Sep 2016 at 05:43:24 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: David Wright composed on 2016-09-13 13:36 (UTC-0500): The person to complain to about not being able to *read* small fonts is your optician. Thats presumptuous. There's only

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-14 Thread David Wright
On Wed 14 Sep 2016 at 11:09:47 (-0400), Ric Moore wrote: > On 09/13/2016 02:36 PM, David Wright wrote: > > >When I want to change resolution, which keys should I press to do that? > > Back in the day, when xorg.conf roamed free, you could have multiple > screen resolutions noted within it and a

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-14 Thread David Wright
On Wed 14 Sep 2016 at 05:43:24 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2016-09-13 13:36 (UTC-0500): > > Rather curious to see a regular participant here with a .co.uk > mailing address apparently in a university environment in a UTC-0500 > time zone. Curiosity makes it for me a

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-14 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/13/2016 02:36 PM, David Wright wrote: When I want to change resolution, which keys should I press to do that? Back in the day, when xorg.conf roamed free, you could have multiple screen resolutions noted within it and a ctrl-alt-+ would switch resolutions on the fly. That worked on

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-14 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2016-09-13 13:36 (UTC-0500): Rather curious to see a regular participant here with a .co.uk mailing address apparently in a university environment in a UTC-0500 time zone. Curiosity makes it for me a recurring distraction, wondering just what part of the world this

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-13 Thread David Wright
On Thu 08 Sep 2016 at 12:53:49 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2016-09-08 09:08 (UTC-0500): > > >On Thu 08 Sep 2016 at 04:36:42 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > > >>Nicolas George composed on 2016-09-08 10:07 (UTC+0200): > > >>>Felix Miata composed: > > The simplest way

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-08 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2016-09-08 09:08 (UTC-0500): On Thu 08 Sep 2016 at 04:36:42 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: Nicolas George composed on 2016-09-08 10:07 (UTC+0200): >Felix Miata composed: >>The simplest way is to direct KMS's framebuffer to use a lower resolution >>than the native

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-08 Thread David Wright
On Thu 08 Sep 2016 at 04:36:42 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > Nicolas George composed on 2016-09-08 10:07 (UTC+0200): > > >Felix Miata composed: > > >>The simplest way is to direct KMS's framebuffer to use a lower resolution > >>than the native hi-res one by including a video= parameter on the

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-08 Thread Nicolas George
Le tridi 23 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Felix Miata a écrit : >as they are generally produced with many more pix > than typical GUI fonts. You said, quite rightly, "usually 16x9". That does not make many more pixels, that is rather typical of what is used with GUI fonts too. >

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-08 Thread Felix Miata
Nicolas George composed on 2016-09-08 10:07 (UTC+0200): Felix Miata composed: The simplest way is to direct KMS's framebuffer to use a lower resolution than the native hi-res one by including a video= parameter on the kernel cmdline. The lower the resolution, the larger the standard (usually

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-08 Thread Nicolas George
Le tridi 23 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Felix Miata a écrit : > The simplest way is to direct KMS's framebuffer to use a lower resolution > than the native hi-res one by including a video= parameter on the kernel > cmdline. The lower the resolution, the larger the standard (usually 16x9) > framebuffer

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-08 Thread Felix Miata
The simplest way is to direct KMS's framebuffer to use a lower resolution than the native hi-res one by including a video= parameter on the kernel cmdline. The lower the resolution, the larger the standard (usually 16x9) framebuffer font becomes. On a 1920x1200 display I typically use

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016, at 12:46, Stephen Powell wrote: > > To determine which module to blacklist, issue > >dmesg|less > > and see if you can figure out which module is loading. You can also issue > >lsmod|less > > to see which modules are loaded. Perhaps you can identify which module

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-05 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 06:36:05PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > I'm surprised the OP didn't test them with > > dpkg-reconfigure console-setup This worked. I now have a sane console setting. :) Thanks for that tip Brian. ~Mayuresh

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-05 Thread Brian
> On Mon, 5 Sep 2016, Brian wrote: > > >Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 13:36:05 > >From: Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! > >Resent-Date: Mon, 5 Sep

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
2016 13:36:05 From: Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Resent-Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 17:36:23 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Mon 05 Sep 2016 at 11:58:25 -0500, David Wright

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-05 Thread Brian
On Mon 05 Sep 2016 at 11:58:25 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 05 Sep 2016 at 21:31:20 (+0530), Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > Is there any way to get a regular console under Debian Jessie? > > I don't use a GUI, just plain old CLI, and working on hi-res with > > "tiny" little fonts is extremely

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-05 Thread David Wright
On Mon 05 Sep 2016 at 21:31:20 (+0530), Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > Is there any way to get a regular console under Debian Jessie? > I don't use a GUI, just plain old CLI, and working on hi-res with > "tiny" little fonts is extremely painful. > I have tried playing with "console-setup". No results. I

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016, at 12:01, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > Is there any way to get a regular console under Debian Jessie? > I don't use a GUI, just plain old CLI, and working on hi-res with "tiny" > little fonts is extremely painful. > I have tried playing with "console-setup". No results. >

Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-05 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 20 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Mayuresh Kathe a écrit : > Is there any way to get a regular console under Debian Jessie? > I don't use a GUI, just plain old CLI, and working on hi-res with "tiny" > little fonts is extremely painful. > I have tried playing with "console-setup". No results. You

Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!

2016-09-05 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
Hi, Is there any way to get a regular console under Debian Jessie? I don't use a GUI, just plain old CLI, and working on hi-res with "tiny" little fonts is extremely painful. I have tried playing with "console-setup". No results. ~Mayuresh