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Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

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> hobie@rumormillnews.com composed on 2019-07-21 20:13 (UTC-0400):
>
>> my console is no longer 80x25, the way I want it; it's something much
>> smaller,
>> pretty much impossible for me to read.
>
> At 1600x900 you're seeing 200x56 with the standard 16x8 font.
>
>> Many thanks, Etienne, Alexander, Felix, Carl, Cindy Sue, and even bw,
>> for
>> the ideas, brainstorms, and general patience and for walking with me on
>> this rather weird journey. :)  If somehow we can get my 80x25 console
>> back, I think we could declare total victory on this one.
>
> Add to cmdline:
>
> 	video=640x400
>
> I usually use video=1440x900 to produce 180x56.
> --

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.

--hobie

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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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