Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752299Ab0AUCdP (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:33:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751874Ab0AUCdN (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:33:13 -0500 Received: from mail-yx0-f187.google.com ([209.85.210.187]:55004 "EHLO mail-yx0-f187.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751591Ab0AUCdM (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:33:12 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=LVYWdHU/+LUf+spO7eJg83Kmr4MedXOhg5gdQZf2AErnuVw3kNnk8Qnn1rnjpSqRVP NWvSPk61WLuB6I46wh1oQIpTcRbxjGpBchFQWMLfgc8Ak5riLpHFIQ056oe5CZcWpAD5 7bwB0KlMqB7q6OIioN1nt/73A48gfduJy5eGo= Message-ID: <4B57BCDA.1070705@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:32:58 -0300 From: "Tomas M." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091215 Shredder/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Stern CC: Corbin Simpson , James Simmons , dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Kernel development list Subject: Re: Font selection with i915 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1453 Lines: 40 since 2.6.32 you can change the resolution with video=VGA-1:640x480 boot parameter and emulate the old behaviour. On 01/20/2010 05:39 PM, Alan Stern wrote: > 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/ > -- 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/