<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 2:20 PM hp4everything <<a href="mailto:hp4everything@googlemail.com">hp4everything@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
getting older I'm nearly not able to read the text on a virtual console.<br>
I'm working with opensuse tumbleweed on a laptop and was able to<br>
configure the KDE screen for my needs, but not the vconsole.<br>
<br>
Google told me that probably systemd is responsible for vconsole-<br>
configuration, but in vconsole.conf there seem to be options for me<br>
to make the text readable:<br>
<br>
- the preconfigured font "eurlatgr" has no fontsize-option<br>
- vconsole.conf has no fontsize-parameter<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The console fonts aren't scalable – each font file in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts has exactly one size AFAIK. So there is no point in having a separate fontsize option because that's already part of the file name (fontname).</div><div><br></div><div>For example, if you install the Terminus font, you select the size using FONT=ter-v20n, FONT=ter-v22b, FONT=ter-v24n, etc. It's up to each font to provide these variants.</div><div><br></div><div>(The largest "stock" font is probably sun12x22, but its charset coverage isn't great.)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
- vconsole.conf has no screen-resolution parameter<br>
- vconsole.conf has no parameter to select a framebuffer, e.g 1052x768<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The kernel will activate a framebuffer automatically as soon as a KMS video driver is loaded (such as i915 or radeon). You can specify the screen resolution using the "video=1024x768" kernel boot option (e.g. via GRUB).</div><div><br></div><div>This doesn't require systemd-vconsole and generally happens automatically as soon as udev starts. (Possibly even during the initramfs? I use early-KMS on Arch, no idea how that's done on SuSE.)</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, if you're using the proprietary nVidia drivers, I'm not sure if those support a framebuffer at all?</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Mantas Mikulėnas</div></div></div>