On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Dr. Ing. Dieter Jurzitza <dieter.jurzitza@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear listmembers, > I am not sure whether or not I am at the right place here, but I'll give it a > try as the list's name sounded most close to what I would like to talk about. > > Recently I installed a brand new linux distro coming with the KMS-feature. > Though appearing quite satisfying at the first glance I noted several > drawbacks you probably can give answers to / set me on the right track. > > The console mode is radically set to the maximum that is promoted by the > monitor's edid. This leaves the console on my system totally useless as 2048 x > something points on a 21'' display - well, if I was thirty years younger ... > and my eyes were still that good .... > > Configuration options? Nope. Turn it off, if it disturbs you, I was told. > > This is not the way things ought to be. I would like to use KMS for X11 - but > in X11, there is xrandr, so I have a chance to configure things afterwards - > but the console - like it or leave it? The distros drop the xorg.conf creation > software, saying that there is KMS - but the console is left alone(?) > > I have been searching for documentation, but in vain so far. Is there any > friendly guy around explaining to me how to tame that beast? Is it really > intended (think of visually impaired people ....) that there is no way to > configure this behaviour? > > By the way, I am using kernel 2.6.34<something> > > Playing around with fbset yielded nothing but cryptic messages about not > existing modes though being present in /etc/fb.modes. > > Thank you very much for your help in advance, Either change console fonts to something larger (I think this is possible haven't done it), or just boot with video=640x480 or 800x600 to change resolutions. Dave. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
