Re: Non-graphical Boot and Terminal Font

2010-07-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:58:35 -0400 David Liguori wrote: > Maybe the solution is to buy a bigger monitor. Nah, I use a 46 inch HDTV as a monitor and the fonts are too small for me there as well. The problem is they are pixel sized fonts, and none of the pixel sizes are very big. You need a crappy

Re: Non-graphical Boot and Terminal Font

2010-07-23 Thread David Liguori
On 7/23/2010 10:13 AM, TNWestTex wrote: > > > Stephen Gallagher-2 wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 07/22/2010 08:37 AM, David Liguori wrote: >> >>> I prefer to boot in non-graphical mode then load the Xwindow system, or >>> not, as desired. To this

Re: Non-graphical Boot and Terminal Font

2010-07-23 Thread TNWestTex
Stephen Gallagher-2 wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/22/2010 08:37 AM, David Liguori wrote: >> I prefer to boot in non-graphical mode then load the Xwindow system, or >> not, as desired. To this end I set my default runlevel to 3 and delete >> the option

Re: Non-graphical Boot and Terminal Font

2010-07-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:11:19 -0400 David Liguori wrote: > Any other ideas? Maybe I should parse inittab more closely in the two > builds. All the former console mode stuff is completely gone. All the kernel options about vga= are meaningless. Everything has been consumed by the quest for kernel

Re: Non-graphical Boot and Terminal Font

2010-07-23 Thread David Liguori
On 7/22/2010 9:19 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > With the new kernel video mode setting, the fonts in console > mode come from the console fonts in /lib/kbd/consolefonts/. > > The one it uses is determined by the font named in the > file /etc/sysconfig/i18n and (for me) usually seems to be > the sill

Re: Non-graphical Boot and Terminal Font

2010-07-22 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/22/2010 08:37 AM, David Liguori wrote: >> I prefer to boot in non-graphical mode then load the Xwindow system, or >> not, as desired.  To this end I set my default runlevel to 3 an

Re: Non-graphical Boot and Terminal Font

2010-07-22 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/22/2010 08:37 AM, David Liguori wrote: > I prefer to boot in non-graphical mode then load the Xwindow system, or > not, as desired. To this end I set my default runlevel to 3 and delete > the option "rhgb quiet" in grub.conf, as is well docume

Re: Non-graphical Boot and Terminal Font

2010-07-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:37:04 -0400 David Liguori wrote: > My searches on this topic have been surprisingly unproductive. Mine too, but I eventually found something that helps (though it isn't setting things back to 80 columns). With the new kernel video mode setting, the fonts in console mode co