On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 11:53 -0500, Lars Eighner wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Craig White wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 02:56 -0500, Lars Eighner wrote:
> >
> >> 4) resizeconsole promises to adjust the console, but complains it does not
> >> have the proper 'videomode' file for 80x25. There
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Lars Eighner wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Craig White wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps you have some setup that defeats automatic detection of the
>> available modes.
>>
>> are you following this?
>>
>> http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
>
> This seems to
> Vesa is for sort of drawing a picture of what it thinks text mode might look
> like -- if text mode was tiny, illegible, and all et up with unicode. Vesa
> is not VGA. There has never been a graphics font that can put 4000
> characters (80x25) on a screen legibly, which is what VGA can do.
Sor
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 02:56 -0500, Lars Eighner wrote:
>
>> 4) resizeconsole promises to adjust the console, but complains it does not
>> have the proper 'videomode' file for 80x25. There is no hint of where
>> the acceptable 'videomode' files might be.
Am 20.08.2011 09:56, schrieb Lars Eighner:
> 1) From Googling I am given to understand I can boot to a console by setting
> the run level in /etc/inittab. This seems to be a mistake, for the file
> itself says nothing in it will have any effect.
your only problem in this case is that you are una
On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 02:56 -0500, Lars Eighner wrote:
> 4) resizeconsole promises to adjust the console, but complains it does not
> have the proper 'videomode' file for 80x25. There is no hint of where
> the acceptable 'videomode' files might be. Using the -lines switch, it
> will reduce the n
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Lars Eighner wrote:
> 5) attempting to set vga= in grub leads to a blank screen and an
> unresponsive keyboard.
I'm not sure what the problem is here but vga=ask does work, I just
tried it as I've been meaning to tweak my virtual terminal resolution
for a while bu
On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 02:56 -0500, Lars Eighner wrote:
> 1) From Googling I am given to understand I can boot to a console by setting
> the run level in /etc/inittab. This seems to be a mistake, for the file
> itself says nothing in it will have any effect.
had you bothered to read the release
Lars Eighner kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika lauantai, 20.
elokuuta 2011):
> 1) From Googling I am given to understand I can boot to a
> console by setting the run level in /etc/inittab. This seems
> to be a mistake, for the file itself says nothing in it will
> have any effect.
It was true in
Lars Eighner kirjoitti lauantai, 20. elokuuta 2011 10:56:37:
> 1) From Googling I am given to understand I can boot to a console
by
> setting the run level in /etc/inittab. This seems to be a mistake, for
the
> file itself says nothing in it will have any effect.
>
> 2) But the file goes on to s
2011/8/20, Lars Eighner :
[...]
>
> (Previously:
>
> yes, yum will install wvdial, which is not installed with the GUI install,
It is, if you want it to be.
> but as I have mentioned, yum will not run unless the fedora and update repos
> are disabled because (says yum) their .xml files do not hav
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