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mattie01 n00b
Joined: 30 Nov 2005 Posts: 33
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 11:50 am Post subject: noob console question (solved) |
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i'd first like to say sorry as i'm sur this is a really simple question, i'm just having trouble locating the answer,
when i installed gentoo using the mips livecd the text in the console was nice and small and since i'm now managing to boot off my own kernel using arcload the font on screen is quite large, i've tried looking for a answer both in google and on teh forums but most of the answers point to editing lilo to chaneg this or to use resizecons but this command doesn;t seem to work either...
what i was wondering is, would it be possible to pull the arc-bootcd.cf from the /uss/lib/arcload dir and just rename this to arc.cf or at the very least just pull the }video parts from the config? would this work?
or am i really being a total noob?
if its any help here is my arc.cf code
Code: | #arcload configuration
#some default setttings...
append "root=/dev/sda3";
append "ro";
append "console=ttys0,9600";
#main deffinitions
ip32 {
working{
description "sgi o2"
image system "/system"
}
}
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of course if its easier i can always try to emerge arcboot...
thanks
mattm
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Redhatter Retired Dev
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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I suspect gbefb is defaulting to 640x480 8-bit colour. I'm not sure what the LiveCD uses (as I've never used it), however, you can bump the resolution up by adding to the kernel command line:
video=gbefb:1024x768-15@72 The resolution bit should be blindingly obvious... the -15 bit referrs to the bit depth, in this case, 15-bit colour. (Note, 16-bit, 24-bit and 32-bit colour don't work yet). The @72 bit referrs to the vertical refresh rate, in this case, 72Hz.
Simply edit your arc.cf, and add the following to the top:
append "video=gbefb:1024x768-15@72"; (adjust to taste)
and you should be fine. _________________ Stuart Longland (a.k.a Redhatter, VK4MSL)
I haven't lost my mind - it's backed up on a tape somewhere...
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mattie01 n00b
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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mattie01 n00b
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Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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just for the record the code i used to get it working was,
just incase anyone else gets stuck on this...
Code: | #arcload configuration
#some default settings
append root=/dev/sda3;
append ro;
#Main definitions
ip32 {
working {
description sgi 02;
image system /working;
append console=ttys0 video=gbefb:1024x768-16@75;
}
}
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