Re: text size on CLI

2012-07-18 Thread Mike McClain
Hi Brian, On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 09:28:18AM +0100, Brian wrote: On Mon 16 Jul 2012 at 22:36:20 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: I'm talking about /dev/tty1-10, non-GUI console. snip Fixed fonts have an upper limit to their size of 16. Anything larger and you need to use the Terminus font.

Re: text size on CLI

2012-07-17 Thread Brian
On Mon 16 Jul 2012 at 22:36:20 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: I'm talking about /dev/tty1-10, non-GUI console. I changed /etc/default/console-setup from: FONTFACE=VGA FONTSIZE=32x16 to: FONTFACE=Fixed FONTSIZE=18 and reran setupcon but still have a 42x128 screen. Fixed

text size on CLI

2012-07-16 Thread Mike McClain
On the command line in Squeeze my screen size seems to be 43x128 which makes it very hard on my eyes. How do I get it to around 36x80? Thanks, Mike -- Satisfied user of Linux since 1997. O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: text size on CLI

2012-07-16 Thread Siard
Mike McClain wrote: On the command line in Squeeze my screen size seems to be 43x128 which makes it very hard on my eyes. How do I get it to around 36x80? # dpkg-reconfigure console-setup Select font and font size. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: text size on CLI

2012-07-16 Thread Chris Davies
Mike McClain mike.j...@nethere.com wrote: On the command line in Squeeze my screen size seems to be 43x128 which makes it very hard on my eyes. How do I get it to around 36x80? When you say the command line do you mean in a terminal window within the GUI or do you mean on a non-GUI console? If

Re: text size on CLI

2012-07-16 Thread Mike McClain
Thanks for the suggestion Siard but it doesn't seem to work here. I tried a couple of dirrerent fonts and changing the text size but none affected the display. Is there a way to turn off the framebuffer for the commandline short of rebuilding the kernel which I haven't gotten to work yet?

Re: text size on CLI

2012-07-16 Thread Mike McClain
Hi Chris, On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 08:45:17PM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: Mike McClain mike.j...@nethere.com wrote: On the command line in Squeeze my screen size seems to be 43x128 which makes it very hard on my eyes. How do I get it to around 36x80? When you say the command line do you