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mykey

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From: out of the blue

Registered: 2007-03-02

Posts: 113

[solved] New Kernel - tiny fonts during boot

Hi

I just compiled myself a new kernel - kernel26-ice-2.6.36-5. During the boot process between the message ' Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed' and 'Bringing up loopback interface' the fonts turns REAL tiny. I don't use any splash screens or such (obviously) and would like to maintain the font I declare in my boot loader (lilo).

I have an nvidia graphics card - tried to get rid of KMS using uvesafb, which rendered the boot process useless. I don't know how to get rid of KMS (I suppose that is what's causing the problem) but can't seem to find a way. A hint would be appreciated.

Last edited by mykey (2011-01-27 12:48:14)

FarmerF

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2009-06-08

Posts: 76

Re: [solved] New Kernel - tiny fonts during boot

I think this is related to kms (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KMS) disable this to return to prevent the "tiny font" "issue".

As I do not use lilo and like the tiny font I can not test this but I think adding 

append = "nomodeset" 

to lilo.conf might work.

Last edited by FarmerF (2011-01-27 12:00:58)

mykey

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From: out of the blue

Registered: 2007-03-02

Posts: 113

Re: [solved] New Kernel - tiny fonts during boot

That did it - thank you - I did read the KMS wiki before, but did not figure out the right syntax for the append line ... as a drawback the 'nouveau' graphics driver stopped working without KMS enabled - I'm using the 'nv' driver now which seems to be a little less snappy, but does what I want it to - thanks again.

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mykey

thestinger

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 478

Re: [solved] New Kernel - tiny fonts during boot

your fonts didn't become smaller, your native resolution was set in the console

you should just set a bigger console font