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From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: options VESA SC_PIXEL_MODE
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On 8/2/06, dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> wrote:
> I followed some advice on how to get higher resolutions on the console
> for my 1280x1024 LCD monitor.
>
> I recompiled the kernel with
> options VESA
> options SC_PIXEL_MODE
>
> After a vidcontrol MODE_282 I get a 1280x1024 console.
> Nice, but the characters are just "fat" compared to the chars I get in
> Xorg running the same resolution setting (those terminal chars are very
> sharp).
>

This is typical of LCD and notebook screens in any OS. It a limitation
of the display technology. Try another mode "vidcontrol -i mode" that
has a smaller fonts. You could try forcing the font size smaller but I
don't know how to do that. What about MODE_279?

> Furthermore it "feels" as though the screen has become a little slower
> then without vesa and sc_pixel_mode (in the console). Can this be? Or
> is this just my imagination.
>

It's not your imagination.


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