Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754587Ab0ATUjz (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:39:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754520Ab0ATUjy (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:39:54 -0500 Received: from iolanthe.rowland.org ([192.131.102.54]:34889 "HELO iolanthe.rowland.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754144Ab0ATUjy (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:39:54 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:39:52 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@iolanthe.rowland.org To: Corbin Simpson cc: James Simmons , , Kernel development list Subject: Re: Font selection with i915 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 988 Lines: 27 On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Corbin Simpson wrote: > 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. I tried fbset, and it was distinctly unsuccessful. When I ran "fbset 640x480-60", the general appearance of the screen did not change but all new text got squeezed into the upper-left corner in an unreadable form. It's not clear what mode I should specify. The output from "fbset" is rather unhelpful (I didn't save the exact output but this is close): mode: "1280x1024-0" D: 0 MHz H: 0 kHz V: 0 Hz geometry: 1280 1024 1280 1024 32 timings: -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 rgba: 8/16,8/8,8/0,0/0 Alan Stern -- 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/