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Low resolution in the EFI/VGA early boot framebuffer/console (and in GRUB)
When I boot my Linux machine with UEFI and grub2, I get only few graphic modes (resolution modes) available. And both of them are really smaller than my monitor/screen. For example, the boot console ...
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How do I change the framebuffer resolution at runtime without legacy /dev/fb0?
I have a server in production which was booted with a 1080p widescreen monitor attached and it used that when it automatically selected that resolution for the console on boot. Currently, it is ...
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How can I enable TTY console?
I'm running Linux (Debian 10) on a Chromebook (Eve) using a stock Chrome OS kernel (4.4.x) with minor modifications. Everything runs (mostly) fine except that TTY console cannot be accessed via Ctrl+...
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Cannot force Debian to start in Framebuffer 640x480 resolution
In order to port an embedded project from an ARM target to Linux/x86, I have to create a Debian VM (I'm using Virtualbox right now) which starts in framebuffer mode with 640x480 resolution.
I used ...
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How to set a large stty size?(default 80x24)
I'm really not sure where is the problem, so I'm putting all message i think helpful here.
dmesg | grep drm
[ 0.316388] fb0: switching to cirrusdrmfb from EFI VGA
[ 0.316769] [drm] fb mappable ...
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How exactly do the Linux display device files work? [closed]
I don't really understand how the Linux display device files work and interact together. What files in the /dev tree need to go where and where do they need to connect/point to, in order to show a ...
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Two screens/monitors in Linux console (FB not Xorg)
I try to 'mirror' a Linux console (not Xserver) from a Dell laptop to an external monitor connected with HDMI cable. The graphic card is Intel UHD 620. What's the best approach?
Initial net search ...
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How can I get my framebuffer console working?
I have an Apple MacBook that is running a Linux From Scratch system that I have built. It is a minimal system, just booting into a bash prompt, with no X Window System installed. The graphics chip is ...
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Is there a way to add margin, border, offset or padding to the Linux frame buffer text console to compensate for HDMI overscan?
I have a newly bought cheap 8 inch TFT LCD display that is "cutting the edges off" on all sides (i.e., not showing all the pixels). I've come to understand that this is due to "overscan" which seems ...
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How do i set framebuffer console font > 32x16?
I need a to set a font larger than 32x16 for my framebuffer console. As far as i know 32 is the maximum you can do.
Is there a workaround? I'm fine with starting an alternate framebuffer terminal (...
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Linux Console prints the letter 'q' randomly
I'm trying to set up my Linux console - the bare TTY terminal without X.
I tried to capture this problem with asciinema but interestingly, it didn't show up there, So I captured it with my own camera, ...
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Minimalistic Framebuffer showing text and progress only
I have an embedded linux system with framebuffer only. Normally a Qt Application is running. During update situation the application is stoped and I would like to use the framebuffer device to show ...
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Disable framebuffer in QEMU guests
The QEMU options -display curses and -nographic -device sga (the serial graphics adapter) are very convenient for running QEMU outside of a graphical environment.
(think: remote ssh connection, ...
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mplayer -vo caca with geometry
This -geometry 256x144+1095+600 work to show video in rigth bottom:
mplayer -ontop -noborder -geometry 256x144+1095+600 -loop 0 -idle -fixed-vo -msglevel all=-1 2>/dev/null video.mp4
But this one ...
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How can I force the console to output to something other than the framebuffer?
I recently recompiled my kernel to support the vesa framebuffer for some Directfb fun but now my console outputs text very slowly. It's almost as if turning on the framebuffer caused my console to ...
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