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Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

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On 22/07/2019 11.57, Felix Miata wrote:
> hobie@rumormillnews.com composed on 2019-07-22 04:37 (UTC-0400):
> 
>> Thanks, Felix. :) It works, and I could get used to it. :)  Yet it's not
>> the same thing that was there before, with 'nomodeset' in the command
>> line.  It now takes up all the display real estate, stretching from
>> side-to-side, where before there were margins on either side.  I'm
>> guessing 'nomodeset' leads to essentially a VGA display, while
>> video=640x400 leads to a graphic display that's similar to the VGA one...?
>>  I made a few tries at using the 'vga=' parameter talked about in docs on
>> the Web but I get the impression it's no longer used. (?)
> 
>> As I said, I could get used to this and live contentedly with it. :)  But
>> it seems odd not to be able easily to regain the console display I was so
>> used to for so many years.
> 
> KMS overrides vga=. Nomodeset disables KMS, allowing vga=normal or nothing at all
> to produce 80x25.
> 
> Since your display is in fact a widescreen display, you might wish to try a
> proportionally better video mode, e.g. video=1024x600 to produce 128x37, 1024x576
> to produce 128x36, 960/540 to produce 120x33, or video=720x480 to produce 90x30.
> The text in each will be smaller than 80x25, but proportionally correct, and
> likely as big as you really need. Next step tinier text would be 1280x720, very
> roughly 1/3 bigger than the mousetype you get with your screen's native 1600x900.
> 

Good Day,

Orthogonally, you may also want to investigate the use of
setupcon(1) and the configuration file console-setup(5) to set
alternative, more readable font.  The configuration file is
stored in /etc/default/console-setup.

Mine looks like:

	# Consult the console-setup(5) manual page.
	ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"
	CHARMAP="UTF-8"
	CODESET="guess"
	FONTFACE="TerminusBold"
	FONTSIZE="12x24"
	BEEP="polite"
	VIDEOMODE=

But you could specify a font size up to 16x32 px per character,
if you wish so.  Once a change is done, just type:

	$ setupcon

And there it is, a readable font!

Kind Regards,
-- 
Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org>
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Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster hobie@rumormillnews.com - 2019-07-22 02:20 +0200
  Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-07-22 02:40 +0200
    Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster hobie@rumormillnews.com - 2019-07-22 10:40 +0200
      Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-07-22 12:00 +0200
        Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> - 2019-07-22 18:50 +0200
          Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2019-07-22 22:00 +0200
            Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> - 2019-07-23 00:20 +0200

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