On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 2:20 PM hp4everything <hp4everything@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
getting older I'm nearly not able to read the text on a virtual console.
I'm working with opensuse tumbleweed on a laptop and was able to
configure the KDE screen for my needs, but not the vconsole.
Google told me that probably systemd is responsible for vconsole-
configuration, but in vconsole.conf there seem to be options for me
to make the text readable:
- the preconfigured font "eurlatgr" has no fontsize-option
- vconsole.conf has no fontsize-parameter
The console fonts aren't scalable – each font file in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts has exactly one size AFAIK. So there is no point in having a separate fontsize option because that's already part of the file name (fontname).
For example, if you install the Terminus font, you select the size using FONT=ter-v20n, FONT=ter-v22b, FONT=ter-v24n, etc. It's up to each font to provide these variants.
(The largest "stock" font is probably sun12x22, but its charset coverage isn't great.)
- vconsole.conf has no screen-resolution parameter
- vconsole.conf has no parameter to select a framebuffer, e.g 1052x768
The kernel will activate a framebuffer automatically as soon as a KMS video driver is loaded (such as i915 or radeon). You can specify the screen resolution using the "video=1024x768" kernel boot option (e.g. via GRUB).
This doesn't require systemd-vconsole and generally happens automatically as soon as udev starts. (Possibly even during the initramfs? I use early-KMS on Arch, no idea how that's done on SuSE.)
On the other hand, if you're using the proprietary nVidia drivers, I'm not sure if those support a framebuffer at all?
Mantas Mikulėnas
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