steve, vdev has nothing to do with the screen resolution and will not alter it any more than a "Hello World" program would. --Gravis
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > Hi Jude, > > I have no idea if this would be possible, but if it is, it would be > nice. > > It would be nice if either: > > * vdev doesn't change the screen resolution/display method, or > > * vdev enables you to specify screen resolution/display method > > Here's the source of this desire. I have bad eyesight. No matter how I > set VGA or console or whatever in Grub, when udev runs, it changes the > screen to a framebuffer with teensy-tiny fonts I can't read. Which > means all my virtual terminals end up with that same teensy-tiny font. > > The bottom line is that I can't specify a size for the print on my boot > screen and virtual terminals, and for a guy with bad vision, that's a > problem. > > It would be wonderful if vdev could include a way to either not change > the video from what Grub booted, or to enable the user to specify some > kind of command line arg or file content to tell vdev what size type to > use, and/or maybe even whether or not to use a framebuffer. > > Thanks, > > SteveT > > Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ > Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
