Gracias Mircea,
I'll try those when I get back to work. I want to upgrade the kernel anyway,
since I have a USB mouse and i810 on the
motherboard. I'm still puzzled though - how does Storm switch the fonts
back?
Jim
Mircea Luca wrote:
> James Frey wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I installed rain and updated to potato using the debian http references
> > in sources.list. The reason for this is I'm behind a firewall or
> > something in Mexico City that isn't allowing FTP to get through. So now
> > I have a Storm start up window, but the fonts in the consoles are
> > small. I've looked in the startup scriipts to see where they are put
> > back to normal on my home machine, but haven't found anything. It's
> > not serious, as long as I son't forget my glasses.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help.
> >
> > Jim
> >
>
> 1.Storm rain came with framebuffer enabled.Not sure if setting
> vga=normal in
> /etc/lilo.conf and rerunnig lilo will solve it.You can try and run fbset
> to set it up to a lower resolution ,don't remember the options ,read the
> manual-I had typed the command in .bashrc and that took care of it.
> 2.Better to recompile the kernel without framebuffer support
> 3.The other option would be to upgrade the kernel via a precompiled
> package that
> has a compiled kernel(pretty generic) and the modules
> apt-cache search kernel-image
> apt-get install kernel-image-xxxxxx
> pick one equal or higher to kernel-image-2.2.16-storm
> either one of those won't have the framebuffer support so you'll get
> back the
> regular fonts in vt's (consoles)
>
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> Alan Saporta
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