On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 20:46 -0500, 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.
I'm not providing that information just for your curiosity, though, nor (entirely) out of a propensity to lecture. I'm providing those explanations to help you understand what you're dealing with, and why what you're asking for isn't as simple as just "switch back to 80x25". Ultimately, you've got two options. One, use Nouveau's framebuffer console, and emulate 80x25 through appropriate font selection - I can't help you any further on that, because I don't know. Or two, don't use Nouveau - I know that's not much help if you want to use X, but that's how it works. That said, one thing you might try is unloading the Nouveau kernel module. If that successfully returns you to 80x25, you could probably blacklist the driver to prevent it from loading on bootup, and write a wrapper script around 'startx' to rmmod the module once you're done with X. No idea if it'd work, but it's certainly worth a try... Simon.
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