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 number of lines to 25, but won't change the columns and > won't get out of the hidious teeny tiny default console font. It just writes > the first 25 lines to each screen at the same height, leaving half the > screen blank. > > 5) attempting to set vga=<anything> in grub leads to a blank screen and an > unresponsive keyboard. ---- 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 you might need to convert those to decimal, sort of as conveyed here... http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/linux/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Vesafb-5.html but in general, you should just let the software detect as this tends to be a bit heavy handed. I'm not sure what this has to do with Fedora though. This is probably going to happen with any recent version of xorg/linux. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
