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Xinevic

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From: Belarus, Minsk

Registered: 2015-12-28

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Increase font in arch installation consle

Hi all!
On work I get laptop with 15.6 display which has UHD resolution. It is too much and I can't install arch because I don't see letters.
How can I increate font size?

Last edited by Xinevic (2016-05-07 15:36:43)

fsckd

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Re: Increase font in arch installation consle

You could try forcing a different mode from the kernel command line. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?ti … s_and_EDID

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Xinevic

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From: Belarus, Minsk

Registered: 2015-12-28

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Re: Increase font in arch installation consle

You could try forcing a different mode from the kernel command line. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?ti … s_and_EDID

I tried to use FHD EDID, but there were a problem that I did't see all information (it goes under the visible part and display didn't show what is under, for example, when I used fdisk).

Maybe you know how can I solve this problem?

Last edited by Xinevic (2016-05-07 20:06:12)

jasonwryan

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Re: Increase font in arch installation consle

Shift+PgUp will allow you to read the scrollback. Or run a multiplexer like tmux...

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headkase

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Registered: 2011-12-06

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Re: Increase font in arch installation consle

See: Here.  At your boot-loader screen append the video mode you want to the kernel line.  D'oh for more complicated machinations.

Xinevic

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From: Belarus, Minsk

Registered: 2015-12-28

Posts: 49

Re: Increase font in arch installation consle

See: Here.  At your boot-loader screen append the video mode you want to the kernel line.  D'oh for more complicated machinations.

Wow. Nice solution. I think, it will work great.

But what will be later? Can Xorg work with this resolution? Or can I, for example, set the resolution from UHD to FHD like now in ubuntu?

headkase

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Re: Increase font in arch installation consle

See: Here.  At your boot-loader screen append the video mode you want to the kernel line.  D'oh for more complicated machinations.

Wow. Nice solution. I think, it will work great.

But what will be later? Can Xorg work with this resolution? Or can I, for example, set the resolution from UHD to FHD like now in ubuntu?

I've never owned a high density display so I don't have first hand experience with them.  I would assume at the least however you could experiment with the Dots Per Inch, DPI, setting to get at least a decent solution.