On 2013-05-17 11:40 (GMT+0200) Roger Oberholtzer composed:
On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 12:04 +0300, ellanios82 wrote:
however the boot process still is shown in same small characters regardless of the vga mode selected
. . . How to increase character size please ?
OTOH, when I added the splash=0, the text for the activity is oddly very big. It is not an issue, but since the topic is up, how to make the text smaller?
AFAIK, there are two basic ways to control boot process (and virtual console) font size: 1-CONSOLE_FONT= in /etc/sysconfig/console 2-kernel cmdline A-with KMS active: video= B-without KMS active: 1-with Grub Legacy and Lilo: vga= 2-with Grub2: see man page (actually vga= still works) Whether Plymouth configuration may be another method I don't know, as I have Plymouth in none of my openSUSE and Fedora installations. Kernel cmdline is the method I usually use, as it's changeable on the fly at boot time. It works via screen resolution setting, which controls font size indirectly. Lower resolution means larger fonts. If you get big fonts, it's probably because something about KMS isn't working as it should on your hardware, often bad EDID. If you're getting tiny fonts, it's probably WAD based upon designers who like mousetype and filling the screen with an incomprehensibly huge amount of text at once. To get biggest text try both vga=normal or vga=788 and video=640x480 or video=800x600 on cmdline. To get smaller text depends on your screen's native or preferred resolution. The framebuffer HOWTO lists vga= modes available by both color depth and resolution. Temporarily using vga=ask will list those specifically applicable to your hardware and allow you to pick one of many. To get smaller text, choose vga=794 or vga=0x31a as a starting point for no KMS, and video=1280x1024, video=1400x1050 or video=1600x1200 for KMS on regular screens, and whatever are your display's supported modes for wide screens, such as video=1920x1080, video=1680x1050 or video=1440x900. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org