On 2012/05/10 19:09 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed:
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 11:49 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
X.log shows 1152x864 as an available mode (but not a "built-in" mode). Anaconda is using 1280x1024, having shifted up to a higher resolution, resulting in tinier text than wanted instead of back to 1024x768 which would be more usable. So next I need to figure out how to get bigger Anaconda fonts in the resolution it thinks I should use, a problem plaguing me for several releases....
I dunno whether that mode setting code has been at all updated for newer X or KMS or whatever. No idea whether it's expected to work or broken or what. I doubt you could force anaconda to use bigger fonts, unless you somehow hack a DPI setting into the X config...
I found a workaround. I connect a '19"' CRT with EDID that most xservers object to in one fashion or another. I initialize installation without vga= or video= on cmdline, and both ttys and Anaconda come up in 1024x768. Then I pull the plug on that display and plug in a '21"' CRT that X usually thinks should use 1600x1200, which at 1024x768 actually makes Anaconda text big enough to see, and tty text a little bigger than I prefer (which is why I usually set 1152x864 on KMS kernel cmdlines).
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