Re: [gentoo-user] X Windows setup questions on my new machine

2010-06-28 Thread waltdnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] X Windows setup questions on my new machine

2010-06-27 Thread Willie Wong
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

[gentoo-user] X Windows setup questions on my new machine

2010-06-26 Thread waltdnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] X Windows setup questions on my new machine

2010-06-26 Thread Christopher Swift
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

Re: [gentoo-user] X Windows setup questions on my new machine

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
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.