I have Dell XPS 9530 15" laptop and the display is 3456x2160. Is there a way to get larger text in the rescue kernel and also during the boot sequence for the non-rescue kernel when the [OK] or [FAILED] messages display? I was able to get normal-looking text in GRUB using these options, however th…

[IMG_0588] So to perform the steps under “INITRD” I should boot into one of the older kernels like 6.11.5-300.fc41 and perform the steps there? When I hit Ctrl-Alt-F3 I get a console with a really tiny font. The steps under “INITRD” will fix this? [image] Arthur Dorrit: For compiled in font…

[image] Arthur Dorrit: It looks like fbcon can be configured to pick which font to use but I think the 8x16 font will already be chosen automatically and can be checked by opening a text vc on tty3 (ctrl-alt-f3) and running showconsolefont -i -C /dev/tty3 You’re right. Running this command …

After you’ve installed the Terminus font, you will only have to add it to /etc/vconsole.conf for it to be used in the TTY (ctrl+alt+f3). I use this Terminus variant myself: $ cat /etc/vconsole.conf KEYMAP="us" FONT="ter-v32n"

[image] Olivier: After you’ve installed the Terminus font, you will only have to add it to /etc/vconsole.conf for it to be used in the TTY (ctrl+alt+f3). I use this Terminus variant myself: $ cat /etc/vconsole.conf KEYMAP="us" FONT="ter-v32n" Don’t you need this step, also? [image] Ar…

[image] Snarf: Don’t you need this step, also? No that’s only needed if you are looking to use Terminus in the boot phase. Once the kernel takes over it will use vconsole.conf directly.

Is 32 the largest possible size? I tried the ter-132n and ter-v32n fonts using setfont and they are basically the same. The size for both of these fonts is still a little small on the 4k laptop display but the size is acceptable if there is no way to get the font slightly larger. I don’t even use…

Unfortunately yes, 32 is the largest size. The fonts are located in /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/, you can try out a few others like this from a TTY: $ setfont <fontname> There is a font named solar24x32 that is bigger than Terminus but it’s quite unpleasant to look at i think.

[image] Olivier: There is a font named solar24x32 that is bigger than Terminus but it’s quite unpleasant to look at i think. Yes I did find that one. It is larger but for some reason it is harder on the eyes.

Yes i think it’s because 32 is the size of the box, so using 24px for characters inside the box makes the distance to other characters too small (4px which translates to 2px on 2xdpi screens).

As far as regenerating the rescue kernel, can’t I just use these steps? sudo rm /boot/*rescue* sudo kernel-install add "$(uname -r)" "/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/vmlinuz" sudo dnf install dracut-config-rescue I got the above steps from the section labeled “Update rescue kernel” in this guide here: …

4k monitor - cannot read text in rescue kernel

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litemotiv (Olivier) December 8, 2024, 9:22pm 41

Probably latin and unicode? The latter will in that case have more characters like é, ē or ê which may not be available in latin.

Plymouth renders non-ASCII as mojibake

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