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Author: Steve Litt
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [Dng] Nice feature for vdev
Hi Gravis,

That's good news, because on Manjaro and CentOS, *U*dev changes the
screen resolution.

Thanks

SteveT

On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 10:18:49 -0500
Gravis <ring3k@???> wrote:

> steve, vdev has nothing to do with the screen resolution and will not
> alter it any more than a "Hello World" program would.
> --Gravis
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Steve Litt
> <slitt@???> wrote:
> > Hi Jude,
> >
> > I have no idea if this would be possible, but if it is, it would be
> > nice.
> >
> > It would be nice if either:
> >
> > * vdev doesn't change the screen resolution/display method, or
> >
> > * vdev enables you to specify screen resolution/display method
> >
> > Here's the source of this desire. I have bad eyesight. No matter
> > how I set VGA or console or whatever in Grub, when udev runs, it
> > changes the screen to a framebuffer with teensy-tiny fonts I can't
> > read. Which means all my virtual terminals end up with that same
> > teensy-tiny font.
> >
> > The bottom line is that I can't specify a size for the print on my
> > boot screen and virtual terminals, and for a guy with bad vision,
> > that's a problem.
> >
> > It would be wonderful if vdev could include a way to either not
> > change the video from what Grub booted, or to enable the user to
> > specify some kind of command line arg or file content to tell vdev
> > what size type to use, and/or maybe even whether or not to use a
> > framebuffer.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > SteveT
> >
> > Steve Litt                *  http://www.troubleshooters.com/
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