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I am running 10.04 and when I installed Nvidia 3d driver the fonts in a non GUI terminal ie. contol-alt-F2 are very large. I used to be able to alter ...
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    Question Non GUI terminal fonts

    I am running 10.04 and when I installed Nvidia 3d driver the fonts in a non GUI terminal ie. contol-alt-F2 are very large. I used to be able to alter the font size in /boot/grub/menu.lst but cannot do the same in /boot/grub/grub.cfg. Suggestions would be appreciated.
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    You can set resolution of tty fonts in /etc/default/grub file.
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    Quote Originally Posted by devils casper View Post
    You can set resolution of tty fonts in /etc/default/grub file.
    Hi devils casper, thanks for the reply but I can only alter the font size of the splash screen not the tty screens. I have altered the line "GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768 " in /etc/default/grub to achieve this is there another line I should edit?

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    Did you execute update-grub command after editing /etc/default/grub file?
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    Yes I did execute update-grub, incidently I had small fonts untill I installed the Nvidia driver.
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    Post the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, if there is any.
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    Quote Originally Posted by devils casper View Post
    Post the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, if there is any.
    # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
    # nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildd@palmer) Fri Apr 9 10:35:18 UTC 2010


    Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "Layout0"
    Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    Option "Xinerama" "0"
    EndSection

    Section "Files"
    EndSection

    Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier "Mouse0"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "Protocol" "auto"
    Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    EndSection

    Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier "Keyboard0"
    Driver "kbd"
    EndSection

    Section "Monitor"

    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier "Monitor0"
    VendorName "Unknown"
    ModelName "BenQ G2200W"
    HorizSync 31.0 - 83.0
    VertRefresh 55.0 - 76.0
    Option "DPMS"
    EndSection

    Section "Device"
    Identifier "Device0"
    Driver "nvidia"
    VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName "GeForce 210"
    EndSection

    Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device "Device0"
    Monitor "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    Option "TwinView" "0"
    Option "metamodes" "1440x900 +0+0"
    SubSection "Display"
    Depth 24
    EndSubSection
    EndSection
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