On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 06:06:51PM EDT, Matthew Smith wrote: > Hi Folks > > This is an issue that I've seen at time on various distros that I have > found mildly annoying. Now close to completing the configuration of my > new Debian installation, I'm upgrading this from "mildly annoying" to > "serious nuisance."
would go as far as "show stopper" myself. > The issue is this: > > * Boot machine. > * Console font size is sensible. > * Run xorg (startx). > * Close xorg. > * Console font size is now enormous on all TTYs to the point of being > unusable. (Have to reboot to be able to work again.) > > Can anyone enlighten me as to why this happens and what I can do to > regain my regular console font size once I quit xorg? Enlighten.. I'm unfortunately incapable of .. I would suspect your card's Xorg driver.. _my_ understanding is that the previous state of your display should have been saved when launching "X" and restored transparently upon exiting. You may want to try a generic (vesa?) driver instead of your card's specific driver to confirm my speculations - sorry I can't be more specific but it's been a while since I had to grapple with such issues. You mention having experienced this same symptoms with "various distros" I assume this was with the same hardware? One place to look for help with such issues is the framebugger lists.. some guys hang in there that _really_ understand this stuff. CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
