On Wednesday 30 June 2010 21:46:02 al...@verizon.net wrote:
> Simon, Trent, Mike:
>
> Thank you very much for the rich, detailed, interesting
> theories and explanations about video drivers, booting,
> X, fonts, pixels, my boot-up component steps, etc.
> All this knowledge and experience is obviously worth a
> thread of its own, something I'd be following keenly.
>
> BUT here, as I said very clearly (hopefully) in my last
> post, ALL I'm interested in - for the moment - is someone
> who HAS "nouveau" active on the machine and has a boot-up
> experience different than mine (or even identical -
> the point is to compare notes and for me to "steal" a few
> ideas :):
Alex,
I've no experience with the nouveau driver. What you see (80x25 at start,
blank, then small font starting partway down) is exactly what I see when my
Debian system boots. I have an nVidia 7600 card; it took me a while to get it
to do that reliably. Think I can find what I did several years ago? Fat
chance! I haven't a clue as to what I did! I expect LFS to be quite similar.
From consolechars(8) man page:
As currently there is no mode switching support in the Linux kernel,
consolechars has nothing to do with the current EGA/VGA mode. It’s
totally user’s responsibility to choose a font matching the current
video mode.
It would appear there is no way to change the console framebuffer's video mode
once the system has booted. If you are brave, you may be able to force the
kernel to unload the framebuffer module and reload it with your desired
parameter(s), if the nouveau driver accepts them (look for 'module_param' in
the driver source). I would suggest doing this via script, using nohup,
unless you are handy with the reset button, or having an SSH session ready to
restart the system if needed.
Thus, if you want large chars again, you'll either need to find or make a huge
font and install it using consolechars, rmmod/insmod the fb driver, patch the
running kernel, or read the driver source to find the correct parameters to
pass to the driver at boot (via grub or lilo) to select a different mode.
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