[ltp] Screen resolution and console fonts for T23 1400x1050

[Bret Waldow]

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The relevant section from my grub.conf file entry is:
 video=radeonfb:mtrr,ywrap,1024x768-16@50
 
 Note of course I'm using radeonfb, and I'm in Australia now, hence the (probably irrelevant) '@50' instead of '@60'.  I haven't gotten around to setting up ACPI yet, so might find reason to go to vesafb myself.
 
 I find the fonts too small on the console at 1400x1050, so I use 1024x768, which works quite well for me.
 
 Cheers,
 Bret
 

John Shane <jslists@mtwafrica.org> wrote: I have a T23 (2647-9SU) with a 1400x1050 screen and am having a
difficult time getting a nice looking text console.  If I leave "LCD
Horizontal/Vertical expansion" off in the BIOS the console is just a
tiny area in the center of the screen.  If I enable expansion then
the fonts are larger and use more of the screen but they are chunky
and ugly.  I am using the Arch 2.6.16-beyond kernel with vesafb-tng
and have video=vesafb,1400x1050-16@60 on the boot command line but
the fonts in the text console still look bad. Maybe 1400x1050 isn't a
valid vesa resolution, even with vesafb-tng. I haven't yet found a
list of valid settings under vesafb-tng. I have also tried different
fonts such as terminal with ConsoleFont=ter-v20n.psf.gz in rc.conf.
Still looks ugly--some parts of the font skinny and some thick and the
curves are blocky. 

Is this simply a hardware issue related to the BIOS expanded screen
or is there a way to use the whole display and still make the console
fonts smooth? Thanks for any suggestions.  John

I did read on ThinkWiki that "Suspend-to-RAM ... does not work
properly if the framebuffer is enabled. Suspending with X running is
fine, so long as the framebuffer is disabled and X is using its own
savage driver."  So it might all be a moot point since getting acpi
and suspend working is my next project and maybe I just need to forget
a decent text console and be satisfied with great terminals under X. 

Meanwhile xorg and xfce4 are behaving very nicely and I have a
beautiful X display.  Thanks to Bret Waldow and the thread
about skinny fonts and non-aliased fonts on this list recently. ;-)
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The relevant section from my grub.conf file entry is:<br> video=radeonfb:mtrr,ywrap,1024x768-16@50<br> <br> Note of course I'm using radeonfb, and I'm in Australia now, hence the (probably irrelevant) '@50' instead of '@60'.&nbsp; I haven't gotten around to setting up ACPI yet, so might find reason to go to vesafb myself.<br> <br> I find the fonts too small on the console at 1400x1050, so I use 1024x768, which works quite well for me.<br> <br> Cheers,<br> Bret<br> <br><br><b><i>John Shane &lt;jslists@mtwafrica.org&gt;</i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> I have a T23 (2647-9SU) with a 1400x1050 screen and am having a<br>difficult time getting a nice looking text console.  If I leave "LCD<br>Horizontal/Vertical expansion" off in the BIOS the console is just a<br>tiny area in the center of the screen.  If I enable expansion then<br>the fonts are larger and use more of the screen but
 they are chunky<br>and ugly.  I am using the Arch 2.6.16-beyond kernel with vesafb-tng<br>and have video=vesafb,1400x1050-16@60 on the boot command line but<br>the fonts in the text console still look bad. Maybe 1400x1050 isn't a<br>valid vesa resolution, even with vesafb-tng. I haven't yet found a<br>list of valid settings under vesafb-tng. I have also tried different<br>fonts such as terminal with ConsoleFont=ter-v20n.psf.gz in rc.conf.<br>Still looks ugly--some parts of the font skinny and some thick and the<br>curves are blocky. <br><br>Is this simply a hardware issue related to the BIOS expanded screen<br>or is there a way to use the whole display and still make the console<br>fonts smooth? Thanks for any suggestions.  John<br><br>I did read on ThinkWiki that "Suspend-to-RAM ... does not work<br>properly if the framebuffer is enabled. Suspending with X running is<br>fine, so long as the framebuffer is disabled and X is using its own<br>savage driver."  So it might all
 be a moot point since getting acpi<br>and suspend working is my next project and maybe I just need to forget<br>a decent text console and be satisfied with great terminals under X. <br><br>Meanwhile xorg and xfce4 are behaving very nicely and I have a<br>beautiful X display.  Thanks to Bret Waldow and the thread<br>about skinny fonts and non-aliased fonts on this list recently. ;-)<br>-- <br>The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:<br>http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad<br></blockquote><br><p>
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