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I added vga=773 to a kernel line. That's exactly the size I want for my monitor resolution.
Booting begins with the the large font as usual,
than it switches to the size I selected vga 773 as I intended,
however, at one point it switches to a _very_ small font size in console !
Please tell how to prevent a system to change the conslole font size, or to prevent it to override the indication in the kernel line and keep the size as selected ?
This is the xcerpt from my /boot/grub/menu.lst:
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/42b087de-3829-4a18-9810-17d84ad5c8bb ro vga=773
Last edited by picilli (2010-07-18 19:39:20)
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That's KMS kicking in I assume.
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That's KMS kicking in I assume.
Thank you. Please what the abbreviation KMS stands for ?
Last edited by picilli (2010-07-18 19:46:10)
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The 'vga=773' won't work anymore.
Use big fontsize in consolefonts and you'll be fine.
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.:B:. wrote:That's KMS kicking in I assume.
Thank you. Please what the abreviation KMS stands for ?
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Just tried all as described in http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fon … fault_font
No changes. I even copied instructions on CONSOLEFONT="lat2-16" and CONSOLEMAP="8859-2", although I don't really need Latin2, but I did it just for the sake of following the instructions, and rebuilt a new kernel image as insrtructed on the same web page by mkinitcpio -p kernel26.
No changes at all.
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Does someone know how in Archlinux we reset the console font to its default as displayed on the begining of boot process ? A command reset in console as root did not yield any changes as expected. Even that large font will be better than Archlinux default when I need a magnifier in order to read text in console.
Last edited by picilli (2010-07-18 20:25:24)
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CONSOLEFONT="lat2-16" - 16 is rather small, about the _very_ small font size you were complaining about. Try 24 or 32.
Try disabling KMS - appent 'nomodeset' or 'i915.modeset=0' to your kernel line in your /boot/grub/menu.lst.
Last edited by karol (2010-07-18 20:28:00)
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CONSOLEFONT="lat2-16" - 16 is rather small, about the _very_ small font size you were complaining about. Try 24 or 32.
I see no any larger font than 16 in my /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/, but I'll try it now.
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You may have to install new ones. Terminus has both 24 and 34: 'pacman -S terminus-font'.
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You don't have to follow instructions that are meant to accomplish things you're not interested in. The wiki isn't perfect and mistakes happen, but http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KMS … e_too_tiny clearly says:
See changing the default font for how change your console font to a large font. One font available from EXTRA that is available in many sizes, including larger sizes, is the Terminus font.
CONSOLEFONT="lat2-16" and CONSOLEMAP="8859-2" are for displaying characters such as Č, ž, đ, or š, using the font lat2-16.psfu.gz - it's also clearly written.
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You may have to install new ones. Terminus has both 24 and 34: 'pacman -S terminus-font'.
Terminus downloaded and changed settins in /etc/rc.d, kernel image rebuilt... It works now. Thanks a bunch !
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