On Monday 19 September 2016 21:23:05 Jude DaShiell wrote: > On Mon, 19 Sep 2016, David Wright wrote: > > Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 15:48:35 > > From: David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> > > Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: How to arrange for booting to console > > Resent-Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 19:48:54 +0000 (UTC) > > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > > On Sat 17 Sep 2016 at 02:34:11 (-0400), Jude DaShiell wrote: > >> On Fri, 16 Sep 2016, David Wright wrote: > >>> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 09:38:31 > >>> From: David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> > >>> Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >>> Subject: Re: How to arrange for booting to console > >>> Resent-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:43:51 +0000 (UTC) > >>> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >>> > >>> I missed this reply until Lisi bumped the thread. > >>> These are my opinions, based of the pathetically little I know. > >>> > >>> On Sun 11 Sep 2016 at 18:52:59 (-0400), Harry Putnam wrote: > >>>> The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> writes: > >>>>> On 2016-09-11 at 17:04, Harry Putnam wrote: > >>>>>> How can I arrange to boot to console mode rather than X. With the > >>>>>> ability to startx when I feel like it. > >>>> > >>>> [...] > >>>> > >>>>> The way I usually do it is to uninstall gdm, kdm, xdm, et cetera; > >>>>> those are the packages which hook in to provide a graphical login > >>>>> prompt. With none of them present, what you get is the traditional > >>>>> text-mode login prompt, and your configured shell after login. > >>>> > >>>> [...] > >>>> > >>>> That sounds promissing. > >>> > >>> It ought to. It's the display managers that start X. If they're not > >>> there, you've to start it yourself with startx. > >>> > >>>> Used one of the methods below and quickly > >>>> realized I was expecting a nice big framebuffered text console with a > >>>> much higher resolution than the standard. > >>> > >>> But you got ... what? > >>> > >>> If you want to know whether you're looking at a nice big framebuffered > >>> text console, install fbset and type > >>> $ fbset > >>> If you see something like: > >>> > >>> mode "1280x800" > >>> geometry 1280 800 1280 800 32 > >>> timings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > >>> accel true > >>> rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,0/0 > >>> endmode > >>> > >>> then you are. > >>> > >>> BTW What's the "standard" resolution of which you speak? > >>> > >>>> (Previously my OS of choice > >>>> was gentoo), But of course all that has to be setup.... as I recall it > >>>> is done with a few extra bits on the kernel line grub.conf.... > >>>> > >>>> Using grub2 I'm thoroughly lost what or where one would edit to allow > > > > ????????????? > > > >>>> a console frame buffer. > > > > [snipped my response which was not grub-related] > > > >> edit /etc/default/grub then run grub-mkconfig to apply your changes > >> like this: > >> grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > > > That's the "where"; what's the "what" ? > > > > Cheers, > > David. > > Almost forgot, after doing edit as root run update-grub as root and you > should be good to go.
That still isn't the "what"!!! Lisi
