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I installed Arch a few days ago, and all seems surprisingly well after past experiences of installing distros. The only minor problem is the tty. It's fine when booting and shows the text at a reasonable size. But then after the "Loading modules" part the font shrinks in defiance of anything in menu.lst. I confess myself baffled.
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I suspect that the causes is KMS: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KMS
If it's KMS doing, then you should be happy, coz now you get native display resolution in console.
Forgive me if I'm wrong. I'm not good at english.
Last edited by nsa.wijayanto (2010-04-29 14:15:21)
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That was promt! Thank you, you were right about KMS. Is there a way of changing the font size for that?
I read the wiki page on fonts, but it doesn't seem to mention anything about it.
Last edited by Ptolom (2010-04-29 15:00:06)
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I'm sorry I don't have the knowledge to alter that, yet. You may search intelgfx mailing lists (http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/) about that.
As for me, on my 7" 800x480, the font could be easily readable.
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you can set resolution of framebuffer from grub command line when booting
regenerate initrd image with mkinitcpio
my lines from grub is like these one:
title Arch Linux(con)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-33 root=/dev/sda5 ro vga=792 quiet console=tty1 splash=silent,fadein,fadeout,theme:arch-livecd
initrd /kernel-33.img
theme also must have support for this resolution
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Disabling KMS will bring good ol' big fonts back.
@qaov
IIRC KMS is incompatible w/ 'vga=xxx' arguments.
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Yeah, I tried disabling it and it the terminal was better. So much better that X wouldn't start. So I re-enabled it and installed terminus-font which seems much easier too see; and all is well.
Last edited by Ptolom (2010-04-29 19:35:28)
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You may have already figured this out but you can set the font in the terminal in /etc/rc.conf.
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