On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Tomas M. wrote:
since 2.6.32 you can change the resolution with video=VGA-1:640x480 boot
parameter and emulate the old behaviour.
That works even with Fedora-12, which uses a 2.6.31-based kernel.
Thanks.
Alan Stern
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, James Simmons wrote:
When Fedora 12 loads i915 during initramfs probing on my system, the
driver automatically installs a tiny 160x64 font. How can I prevent it
from doing this, or tell it to use a larger 80x25 font instead?
Is this documented anywhere?
Not
FYI the legacy non-KMS path (nomodeset) is deprecated in kernel and
was recently dropped from the X driver. You should be able to use
fbset to change the resolution of your fbcon though.
~ C.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Alan Stern st...@rowland.harvard.edu wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010,
since 2.6.32 you can change the resolution with video=VGA-1:640x480 boot
parameter and emulate the old behaviour.
On 01/20/2010 05:39 PM, Alan Stern wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Corbin Simpson wrote:
FYI the legacy non-KMS path (nomodeset) is deprecated in kernel and
was recently
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Corbin Simpson wrote:
FYI the legacy non-KMS path (nomodeset) is deprecated in kernel and
was recently dropped from the X driver. You should be able to use
fbset to change the resolution of your fbcon though.
I tried fbset, and it was distinctly unsuccessful. When I ran
When Fedora 12 loads i915 during initramfs probing on my system, the
driver automatically installs a tiny 160x64 font. How can I prevent it
from doing this, or tell it to use a larger 80x25 font instead?
Is this documented anywhere?
Not really. Here is how you enable larger fonts.
