Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752360Ab0ATSqU (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:46:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752273Ab0ATSqT (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:46:19 -0500 Received: from mail-px0-f182.google.com ([209.85.216.182]:62298 "EHLO mail-px0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752074Ab0ATSqS convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:46:18 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=TGmvVt7P/WwVOJyePuRwC9mYFzseMG1X7naYJMaOZP4AyS+UVX3oi1f+0xnfIc7uOz STekhRukHuX6kauQS7Ik0dstzvvYEQtnedqwoivyPUsNazgBOQQT6BQjVFgAhmx7QmYP UmIOoFHpy/Ha53nAQwf23AFxfLl/O5OOvWcXw= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:46:17 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Font selection with i915 From: Corbin Simpson To: Alan Stern Cc: James Simmons , dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Kernel development list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2444 Lines: 61 FYI the legacy non-KMS path (nomodeset) is deprecated in kernel and was recently dropped from the X driver. You should be able to use fbset to change the resolution of your fbcon though. ~ C. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Alan Stern wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, James Simmons wrote: > >> >> > When Fedora 12 loads i915 during initramfs probing on my system, the >> > driver automatically installs a tiny 160x64 font. ?How can I prevent it >> > from doing this, or tell it to use a larger 80x25 font instead? >> > >> > Is this documented anywhere? >> >> Not really. Here is how you enable larger fonts. Configure your kernel. Go >> into the Graphics support menu. This the the menu that has the >> DRI/Framebuffer and backlight options. You will see a "Console display >> driver support" option. Select it and you will have a new menu. You will >> see the option "Select compiled-in fonts". Enable that and select the font >> you want. Most likely it will be the Sun 12x22 font. Build your kernel. >> >> Their might be one more setup to do. Some distros like to load a console >> font at boot up. Depending on the distro if that is the case you will have >> to disable it. > > It turns out that preventing the mode switch is easier. ?Finding it > took a certain amount of digging, but the "nomodeset" kernel parameter > prevents the console from leaving normal VGA mode. ?If only it were > documented... > > Alan Stern > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the > world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference > attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through > interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev > -- > _______________________________________________ > Dri-devel mailing list > Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel > -- Only fools are easily impressed by what is only barely beyond their reach. ~ Unknown Corbin Simpson -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/