3.16.x on i686

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On 25.06.2014 20:10, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2014-06-25 10:05 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed:
>
>> So...these are three different machines?
>
> 3 out of 14 on which Rawhide is currently installed (test machines total 20+)
> here, among which are represented various flavors of MGA (400 & 550), SiS
> (Z7/Z9 XG20 core), Intel (810, 815, 845, 865, 915, 945, 965, 3100, 4100), ATI
> (rv200, rv250, rv370, rv380, rv516) & NVidia for video.
>
>> I'm curious: why are you passing video= parameters on each one? Do
>> any/all of them work if you don't pass that parameter?
>
> Most of my test machines get used most of the time with a '21"' CRT with
> preferred mode 1600x1200 reported as preferred mode 1280x1024 used at
> approximately 175% of normal viewing distance. Avoiding eyestrain requires
> 1152x864 or lower on the vttys unless I want to monkey with terminal font
> reconfiguration from default.
>
> My second most used test machine display is a 19" LCD TV with native mode
> 1440x900 that reports preferred 1280x1024 but supports 4:3 modes up to
> 1792x1344. It is used at similar distance, so also needs 1024x768 on the
> vttys for the same reason as the CRT.
>
> I also have 2 15" 1024x768, 17" & 19" 1280x1024 and 20" 1600x1200 LCD puter
> displays, 2 31.5" TVs, and an abundance of other CRTs to use as test
> conditions require, in addition to the LCDs used for my 24/7 systems that can
> be briefly pressed into test service when necessary.
>

# yum install terminus-fonts-console

- permanent system wide
/etc/vconsole.conf
FONT=<Big mama font>

e.g. 'latarcyrheb-sun32' or 'ter-v32b'

- runtime local
$ setfont latarcyrheb-sun32
$ setfont ter-v32b


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