[Klug-general] TTY config

[Danny Stewart]

You can try to disable KMS in grub's kernel call by inserting:

radeon.modeset=0 for ATI/AMD radeons
i915.modeset=0 for newer intel cards


cheers.

On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 10:00:26AM +0100, Julia Freeman wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 09:20:30AM +0100, Laurence Southon wrote:
> > As is often the case, the real information was on page 3 of a Google search.
> > 
> > Install the console-setup package
> > 
> > Edit /etc/default/console-setup, the file is well commented, set font
> > and size to suit.
> > 
> > /etc/init.d/console-setup restart
> > 
> > I'm glad you raised the question, it's been annoying me for a while now,
> > and had been wondering how to deal with it.
> 
> Well I did that. And it had an no effect. I also tried Toms stty cols 80
> rows 40, which did work kinda. In so far as I ended up with a 80x40
> terminal in the top left corner of the screen with the same font size,
> meaning that it wasted alot of screen space...
> 
> I wonder if rebooting would have the desired effect, but I refuse to
> beleive that linux has got so out of hand that the only way to fix a
> problem is to reboot. 
> 
> J
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