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algernon

Member

Registered: 2011-02-09

Posts: 4

[Solved] Seeking solution to increase the font size in a base install

I recently installed Arch onto a machine with the following hardware/software

i686 AMD Semprom 3600+
ATI Radeon RS690 [X1200 series]
NEC Multisync E1100+ monitor
xf86-video-ati video driver
Kernel 2.6.37-ARCH

It works nicely.  That is not the problem - I cannot see well enough to read the very tiny console font.
I tried grub VGA setting but as soon as UDEV got hold of the machine the font went small again.
I tried setfont -h## but I probably do not know enough about that from reading the man page to
correctly set the font.

I would like to have a larger font size - that is make an "m" triple or double it's default size.

I have tried to puzzle through the boot process but can't seem to get a handle on a good way,
or any way to change this.  I am having problems getting the menus to work in xorg and need to
use the command line to fix the problems.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks

algernon

Last edited by algernon (2011-02-19 11:09:44)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] Seeking solution to increase the font size in a base install

Have you tried https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KM … e_too_tiny

algernon

Member

Registered: 2011-02-09

Posts: 4

Re: [Solved] Seeking solution to increase the font size in a base install

Oh! Thank you I will try that right now - Terminus font available in larger size.

algernon

algernon

Member

Registered: 2011-02-09

Posts: 4

Re: [Solved] Seeking solution to increase the font size in a base install

Thank you so much Karol - it worked after a little trial and error.
I can see the terminal

Algernon