kleber
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Joined: 05 Nov 2005
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Location: Hamburg
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 Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 3:20 pm Post subject: Sun's original black-on-white console |
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I'm running Gentoo (2.4.31-sparc-r2) on my Ultra 1, and everything is going fine, but I'm not satisfied with the console font and colours; the writing is too small for my taste. I'd like to have the original Sun black-on-white console. From the Linux Framebuffer Howto I gather the following:
| Quote: | | During make config, you need to choose whether to compile promcon and/or fbcon. You can select both, but if you do this, you will need to set the kernel flags to select the device. fbcon always takes precedence if not set. If promcon is not selected in, on boot up, it defaults to dummycon. If promcon is selected, it will use this device. Once the buses are booted, and fbcon is compiled in, the kernel probes for the above framebuffers and will use fbcon. If there is no framebuffer devices, it will default to promcon. |
Uh... that's not very clear. My understanding is that I could recompile the kernel without framebuffer support, but isn't there a simpler way to force the kernel to use the PROM console? Can it be done by setting kernel options, and if so, which ones? |
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