Mistakes & Lies F15

[Craig White]

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.
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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


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