Re: Font selection with i915

[Alan Stern]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Corbin Simpson wrote:

> FYI the legacy non-KMS path (nomodeset) is deprecated in kernel and
> was recently dropped from the X driver. You should be able to use
> fbset to change the resolution of your fbcon though.

I tried fbset, and it was distinctly unsuccessful.  When I ran "fbset 
640x480-60", the general appearance of the screen did not change but 
all new text got squeezed into the upper-left corner in an unreadable 
form.

It's not clear what mode I should specify.  The output from "fbset" is 
rather unhelpful (I didn't save the exact output but this is close):

	mode: "1280x1024-0"
	D: 0 MHz H: 0 kHz V: 0 Hz
	geometry: 1280 1024 1280 1024 32
	timings: -1 0 0 0 0 0 0
	rgba: 8/16,8/8,8/0,0/0

Alan Stern

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