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rbacher:
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Yes, indeed. I have several posts there. Mavrothal was great helping me to solve other issues with installing a minimalistic microcore onto an olpc XO computer. I previously installed the Tinycore versions he has there, but I wanted (and I now have) an even more minimalistic OS. Quite possibly Tinycore has some way to make the fonts bigger, however I am running Quozl's microcore for the XO. Boot time from a cold boot is 24 sec (on a dinky powered XO)!  I will try the other ideas you wrote. There has to be a way to do this. I have succeeded in making all of the other fonts larger and perfectly readable. It's just the "system" fonts (cpanel, appbrowser, etc) that remain microscopically small

maro:
So it appears that some "special" boot loader has some influence on the outcome, I just wonder what the result of cat /proc/cmdline might be.

rbacher:

--- Quote from: maro on January 12, 2011, 01:32:00 AM ---So it appears that some "special" boot loader has some influence on the outcome, I just wonder what the result of cat /proc/cmdline might be.

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no_console_suspend selinux=0 fbcon=font:SUN12x22 quiet norestore tz=EST+5 home=LABEL=sd tce=LABEL=sd opt=LABEL=sd

Does this help any in figuring out how to make the system fonts bigger or the resolution smaller?

rbacher:
I tried:

sudo xfbdev -screen 800x600x24 && export DISPLAY=:0.0 || echo Failed
startx

The result was the same as when I do $ Xfbdev.
What I get is a gray and black cross hatching with an X instead of a mouse arrow. When I go back to the CLI by pressing alt-cntrl-del, I see the following line:

$ Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi, removing from list!

Under /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ I have 75dpi and misc but not 100dpi.

maro:

--- Quote from: rbacher on January 12, 2011, 09:47:18 PM ---no_console_suspend selinux=0 fbcon=font:SUN12x22 quiet norestore tz=EST+5 home=LABEL=sd tce=LABEL=sd opt=LABEL=sd

Does this help any in figuring out how to make the system fonts bigger or the resolution smaller?

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Maybe not directly, I just wanted to be sure what boot codes are getting passed to the kernel. I assume all the ones after 'quiet' are your own. But where is the 'vga=...', and are the first three also specified by yourself? This must be a rather "special" setup ...

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