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From: Stefan Beyer <alfred....@gmail.com>
To: voidlinux@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Font too small
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 12:54:59 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bc05a899-67c4-47e2-b889-f021ec97fb01@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c71388b0-96ee-4fb0-888f-6840b9e4ade3@googlegroups.com>


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By setting FONT="iso02-12x22" in /etc/rc.conf the situation now is 
acceptable; I didn't see this font before. 

Am Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2015 21:08:16 UTC+1 schrieb Stefan Beyer:
>
> Nop, doesn't help. I tried different vga=xxx codes supported by the 
> graphics card, makes no difference at all.
>
> Am Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2015 20:25:40 UTC+1 schrieb Stefan Mühlinghaus:
>>
>> That is not a problem with your fonts but rather with your resolution. If 
>> the fonts are too small you should switch to a lower resolution. You can do 
>> that via Video Mode Switching at boot-time by adding the kernel parameter 
>> "vga=xxx" to your bootmanager configuration, where "xxx" is the VESA number 
>> of your desired video mode. Check this Wikipedia article for possible 
>> numbers/resolutions:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions#Linux_video_mode_numbers
>>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-26 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-26 18:22 Stefan Beyer
2015-02-26 19:25 ` Stefan Mühlinghaus
2015-02-26 20:08   ` Stefan Beyer
2015-02-26 20:54     ` Stefan Beyer [this message]
2015-02-26 21:02 ` Stefan Mühlinghaus

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