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

[John Lumby]

>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.

I have T23 with the S3 supersavage graphics chip.    I woudl have assumed 
all T23's came with this except that I saw someone else talking about the 
radeonfb driver (?) in a reply to your  post.      For quite some time now, 
2.6 kernels have had the option of a frambebuffer graphics driver for the 
console for the Savage chips (config option CONFIG_FB_SAVAGE=y).   Try this, 
and then choose one of the the various fonts - I use iso10.f14, giving 42 
very readable lines, but you can find fancier ones.    BTW, Originally I 
tried setting the driver as a module, thinking I would experiment, but, and 
this may be my ignorance, I could not get it to actually control the console 
when loaded as a module, only as built-in as I've shown.

I have to say it is not perfect (I also have a T42 with an ATI firegl chip 
and the corresponding framebuffer driver is much superior) but it's far 
better than the standard VESA video settings to my eye.

John