On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:20:54PM -0500, Eben King wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, logan wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 15:43 -0500, Eben King wrote:
>>> Hey folks. Whenever I go to text mode (beside or without X, not
> a terminal
>>> emulator), the bottom 4-5 lines is cut off. The text area is normally
>>> sized, just the "virtual screen" extends several lines below my
>>> physical screen. If I run "/etc/init.d/console-screen.sh" the letters
>>> become smaller and everything is visibile. The right monitor shows
>>> garbage at that point, but that's a small price to pay for being able
>>> to see everything.
>>>
>>> Why doesn't this work at boot time? What can I do to correct it?
>>>
>>
>> Maybe it isn't firing off the /etc/init.d/console-screen.sh based on the
>> system runlevel you use to start the machine. I don't know what distro
>> you are using, but on my Debian boxes I can adjust what starts and stops
>> with update-rc.d
>
> eben@pc:~$ ls -l /etc/rc?.d/???console*
> 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jan 30 2006 /etc/rcS.d/S48console-screen.sh
> ->
> ../init.d/console-screen.sh*
>
> What's "rcS" do?
>
rcS is single-user startup. Check your /etc/inittab file, which should
indicate what your default runlevel is. Then check the /etc/rcX.d
directory (X being the default runlevel) to see if there is a link to
your script in that directory.
> Actually, I had a thought. Maybe it _is_ doing the right thing normally,
> just gdm's running later and doing the wrong thing (e.g. assuming 25 (24?)
> lines -- incorrectly -- and choosing a font that fits on that)?
>
That doesn't seem right. A console is standardly 25x80. Are you by
chance running a framebuffer console?
Paul
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