On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:24:16 +0100 NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have only very limited experience with the output of graphic cards > of the last 7 years (ah, the power of remote unix administration), > but I have never seen substantial change in the font displayed at > linux boot with vga=normal (before a console font is loaded from disk) Maybe it's time to get a new card after 7 years :) But I don't know, the font has to come from somewhere, and I think it looks very much like the font used for the BIOS. I'm not using vga=normal; the support for different resolutions on the console is turned off in the kernel. I tried it, but using different resolutions makes the font smaller and/or harder to read and wasn't very useful ... > no, I am completely ignorant about gamma correction. The use of the > hardware brightness/contrast change of the monitor is possible, but > useless at best when one is continuously switching between X and > console. Don't switch continuously between X and console ... X is useful: I find it easier to have 4x4 virtual desktops between which I can seemlessly switch by just moving the mouse pointer over, and because I can run console programs as well as GUI programs. So there is no need to switch away from X, but there would be a need to switch away from the console. Hm, when you think of it: On the console, you have the whole screen to display 80x25, but 80x25 is a more or less small window on X. If you make a terminal filling the whole screen but only displaying 80x25, you can use a pretty large font for that ... > Some time ago, I found with Google links like these: I'll check them out --- maybe I can find some interesting fonts there :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
