hi, i had been working with the high resolution of the console as delivered with ubuntu server distribution, hated it, but had to make do since i couldn't find material which could show me a way to switch off the 'vga' mode.
last night, i migrated away from ubuntu, it's too big for my tastes. on debian jessie, and this too has that same high resolution console.
i have tinkered around with the console-setup and grub files which only afforded me a regular console on grub, but after grub transfers command to the operating system, i am still stuck with a high resolution console.
is there any solution for this problem?
and ah, yes, i still work at the console, no x11 for me.
thanks,
~mayuresh
Hey,
If I get you correctly, you want a tty?
Ctrl+Alt + [1,2,3,4,5,6] is tty mode which is fairly low res.
Ctrl + Alt + 7 gets you back to the desktop mode.
Cheers,
On 30 August 2016 at 17:48, Mayuresh Kathe mayuresh@kathe.in wrote:
hi,
i am not using x11, so there is no desktop mode. my regular unix (cli) console is running at some kind-a high resolution vga mode.
ctrl + alt + [1,2,3,4,5,6] all have that same high resolution mode activated on them.
~mayuresh
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 05:57:14PM +0530, Johnson Chetty wrote:
It might be due to kms: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/kernel_mode_setting
Try disabling it, or adding a vga= option to the kernel commandline? (I haven't tried it myself, though.) There's also a section in the same link on increasing the font size if that helps.
Regards, Lynus
On Aug 30, 2016 6:15 PM, "Mayuresh Kathe" mayuresh@kathe.in wrote:
Hi All,
The vga= option is long deprecated in favour of the video=xxx option, which allows both selection of the frame buffer drover and its resolution, refresh and other parameters.
However, Mayuresh, your problem is not the console resolution, but rather the console font. The default console font is designed for low res displays, and as such looks tiny when you are on a high res screen. What you need to fix is the font setting in the /etc/default/console-setup file. Look at /usr/share/consolefonts for various font face and size options, and pick one that you like. You can use the setfont command to try them out before you decide what foes in the config.
P.s. these paths are Debian/Ubuntu specific. RHEL/Fedora derivatives use a different location.
Regards Rajeev
On Aug 30, 2016 7:22 PM, "Lynus Vaz" lynusvaz@gmail.com wrote:
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