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[Basil Chupin]

On 17/04/10 00:28, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
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>> On 16/04/10 22:34, Liam Proven wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>    wrote:
>>>
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>>      
>>> It's normal behaviour for Linux. The virtual consoles are in VGA text
>>> mode, normally. Ubuntu has always done this along with all Linuxes.
>>>
>>>        
>> Nope, not normal mode with all Linuxes. I come from openSUSE and this
>> does not happen there. The font is equivalent to size 10 of the DeJavu
>> Sans Mono font. A line of output from, say, ps aux is fully readable
>> across the screen.
>>      
> I used to use SuSE and OpenSuSE, on several machines, and it's
> *exactly* what it did for me.
>    

Hmmm, not for me. I always had a readable screen.

Ah, I always used KDE and never Gnome. Perhaps this explains it.

> With this new grub2 setup, where do you set this parameter, any idea?
>    
> I think it involves editing /etc/default/grub. Make a copy before you
> do it and exercise *great* caution!
>    

OK, thanks, I'll try it out tomorrow (or so).

BC


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