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0x001A4
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 Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 3:24 am Post subject: small boot loading font[SOLVED] |
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I was at my friends house today trying to get xorg working. At one point he rebooted but something happend and it didnt boot again. Upon restarting the machine, when the boot screen came up it was a very small font. The exact same as when you see SuSE booting. Does anyone know how to make this font smaller? It looks much better then the 40pt font that I currently have.
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alacheesu
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| Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 7:24 am Post subject: |
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| Frame buffer support i would guess. There's some info in the gentoo handbook about setting it up. Try looking here. Assumes you already have a kernel with frame buffer support. |
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bdm
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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| alacheesu wrote: | | Frame buffer support i would guess. There's some info in the gentoo handbook about setting it up. Try looking here. Assumes you already have a kernel with frame buffer support. |
I'm the friend he's talking about, and my grub.conf dosn't contains anything framebuffers. It's weird because I choose Gentoo to boot from Grub and it loads the kernel and others thing for a few second with a 40pt font, then my screen blakc out for a second, and the font magically shows up smaller. |
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alacheesu
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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@ bdm:
Do you have framebuffer support compiled in the kernel? If so, which driver do you use? I just did a little testing with the drivers suitable for my graphics card (nvidia), and I noticed the nvidia framebuffer driver didn't require passing any options to the kernel. It just chooses the right resolution automagically. Seems to me you're using a driver like this. Sadly, the nvidia frambuffer driver isn't compatible with the binary nvidia-drivers, but vesafb works just as well.
@0x001A4:
I'm still pretty sure framebuffer support is what you're after, as this allows you to change the console resolution, thus giving smaller fonts. Try enabling the following in the kernel:
Device Drivers --->
Graphics Support -->
[*] Support for frame buffer devices
[*] VESA VGA graphics support (vesafb-tng or vesafb. vesafb-tng isn't available on 64-bit systems)
Console display driver support --->
[*] Video mode selection support
[*] Framebuffer Console support
If you chose vesafb you need to pass a vga option to your kernel. Just edit grub.conf and add something like vga=0x318 (for 16M colors and 1024x768) to the end of the kernel-line. I.e. mine looks like
| Code: | | kernel /kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r4 root=/dev/sda9 vga=0x31B |
If you chose vesafb-tng you need to add something like
| Code: | | video=vesafb:1024x768-32@60 |
The Gentoo Handbook (again) gives a little more info for configuring your bootloader.
Hope this helps you guys a little. |
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bdm
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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As a matter of fact, I have the following enabled of which you mentionned:
| Code: | Device Drivers --->
Graphics Support -->
[*] Support for frame buffer devices
[ ] VESA VGA graphics support (vesafb-tng or vesafb. vesafb-tng isn't available on 64-bit systems)
Console display driver support --->
[*] Video mode selection support
[*] Framebuffer Console support |
I don't remember enabling those, I guess it comes pre-enabled.  |
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0x001A4
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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Sounds interesting. I'll have to check my kernel when I get home and see what I have enabled in there, if anything.
Thanks for the help! |
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