[yast-devel][a11y][u9y] video mode/text size control at installation
Where's YaST's "knob" for making screen text bigger during installation? F3 is useless for the GUI. One size does not and cannot fit all!!! Native video mode may be best from a designer perspective, but for many people, results from native just aren't usable. Some people need bigger screen objects, and are aware lowering resolution is a way to get what they need. Is https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Linuxrc relatively complete? If there's anything there directing the installer to use a particular video mode, I'm missing it. Strings "video" and "driver" are both absent. As I virtually always install using HTTP started from Grub, which preconfigures host and netcfg, any more I have minimal familiarity with what's in the DVD's menu WRT F3 video, which is why I went to that web page looking. I often go there for other reasons. Also because of the absent familiarity, I did several NET initializations to take screenshots, to make sure my eyes weren't deceiving me: yastI-grubShttp-cmdlineVideo1024x768dvi.png yastI-grubShttp-videoDefaultDVI.png yastI421F3-800x600on1920x1080-dvi.png yastI421F3-1280x1024on1680x1050.png all @ http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Suse/YaST/421/ All are at the display's EDID native mode, not the cmdline video= specified mode. Apparently that desired mode is only utilized by the vttys, not Xorg's modesetting driver: xorg.0.log-421Installation-video1024x768ignored xorg.0.log-421installation-DefaultVideo xorg.0.log-NET421Installation-F3-800x600on1920x1080 xorg.0.log-NET421installation-F3-1280x1024on1680x1050 all @ http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/SUSE/421/ TW doesn't appear to work any differently: http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Suse/YaST/TW/yastItw160305F3-800x600on1680x1050.png http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/SUSE/Xorg/xorg.0.log-twInstallation0303-F3-800x600on... Those are all on Intel gfx, but results are same with ATI: http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Suse/YaST/TW/yastItw160305F3-radeon1024x768on1680x105... http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/SUSE/Xorg/xorg.0.log-twinstallation0303-F3-radeon102... Must the GUI use the modesetting video driver instead of an Intel, Radeon or Nouveau driver? Xorg by default picks up specified video= from kernel, which gets it via cmdline, and uses it for users of the Intel driver. Do I need to file a BOO bug to get the modesetting driver to pick up and use video= from the installation kernel's cmdline? I didn't find any on point. Maybe because of last paragraphs on https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2016-03/msg00309.html one will already have been filed by someone else by Monday AM. Those with 3840x2160 or other high density screens are apparently in big trouble trying to install. -- "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: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org
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Felix Miata