On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 02:30:30PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> Walter Dnes said on Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:34:39 -0500
>
> > I now have ported user waltdnes in my familiar ICEWM environment to
> >the dev1 machine and did some web-browsing with Pale Moon. Now about
> >setting up bootup services (I use openrc).
> >
> >1) I'm now booting to a text console, logging in manually, and manually
> >starting a script that launches ICEWM. The font on the 1920x1080 text
> >console is dinky and hard to read. In Gentoo there is a "consolefont"
> >service and I've selected /usr/share/consolefonts/solar24x32.psfu.gz
> >which is much more readable on a 1920x1080 text console. Is there an
> >equivalant in Devuan?
>
> This doesn't answer your question, and I don't guarantee it will work,
> and if it does work it works by getting rid of that obnoxiating
> framebuffer, but you might want to try this:
>
> https://troubleshooters.com/linux/quickhacks.htm#noframebuffer
>
> If it works, you'll have old-school terminal style 80x24 text, with
> absolutely no graphics, in your virtual terminals.

I got rid of the frame buffer on a recent 32-bit Devuan installation and
it massively sped up software scrolling and indeed restored the
venerable shift-PgUp/PgDn hardware scrolling that got lost in recent
kernels.