Re: [uug] fonts in text mode

[Lars Olson]

Another problem might be similar to one I had with my Thinkpad-- it normally displays text mode in 640x480 (I think) resolution. Usually it just uses the center 640x480 pixels of the screen and leaves the rest of the screen black, but for some reason (still have no idea why, but I think it has some connection with the battery being low) the BIOS suddenly decided to start stretching the display to cover the whole screen instead. It looked uuuuuu-gly. I finally found out how to tell the BIOS to switch back (fn-F8 or something not-very-immediately-obvious like that).

Lars

Tim Riker wrote:

try:

# consolechars -d

what are the "nice" and "ugly" fonts like?

You might try on the kernel command line things like vga=1, vga=6, vga=791, vga=ask etc. and see if you find a kernel displaymode and font you like better.

What resolution is your LCD?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Running Mandrake on a laptop here. No, don't know what version.

Anyway, I like to do as much as I can in text mode, or whatever it's
called before KDE fires up. Now, the font I get on powerup is pleasant,
but as soon as the boot loader begins -- no, I don't know if it's LILO or
GRUB, it doesn't announce itself -- I get this really ugly-looking one,
both during boot and at the prompt.

So, how do I get the nice one back? No, starting a window manager is not
an option -- I want text mode.

Theron


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