On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 07:12:50PM EDT, Chris Jones wrote: > 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.
.. oh bugger.. I meant the framebuffer lists, naturally. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
