Console font size in console mode Arch x86_64

hi
i do fresh install Archlinux 2013 x86_64. so i see some change btwin that and 2011, any way , everythings work OK, fast (KDE) but sometime i need work in console mode (ctrl+alt+f1) but i cant change resolution of console font, because now is settingsome basic and so big. i have nvidia card and drivers. i try read ths https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uvesafb but i cant find some solutions how setting everything with grub2 etc. in my old laptop i have arch 2011 and grub1 but everything work OK include console font, that was much better to setting, in that arch i cant find any working solution, so please help me if somebody know about this.
thanks
Last edited by H20 (2013-03-01 20:44:07)

[ 15.458823] NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console
[ 15.458830] NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver
[ 15.458834] NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console
[ 15.458838] NVRM: drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in
[ 15.458841] NVRM: corruption and stability problems, and is not supported.
I suspect that it's still the case. You may even have this message in your own dmesg.
Switch console to VGA mode and use xterm instead.
This has nothing to do with resolution setting in a framebuffer, which is what the title of the thread suggests.
I'm pretty sure it does - it looks like the console is being switched to VGA text mode; nvidia has no reason to touch fonts.
Last edited by mich41 (2013-03-01 21:40:35)

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