Description of problem: Screens are getting bigger and higher resolution all the time, yet all the bitmap fonts shipped with kbd have relatively small numbers of pixels per glyph. Either the kernel video mode setting should pick a more appropriate mode than "max resolution" when in console mode, or the kbd fonts need to come in sizes with more pixels so they are big enough to see. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kbd-1.15-9.fc12.x86_64 How reproducible: All the time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot runlevel 3 on high res monitor 2. squint a lot. 3. Actual results: Tiny fonts Expected results: Readable fonts Additional info: I used http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Unix/PSF/ to produce a 2X scaled up version of one font to make my console characters big enough to see (if a bit blocky).
Created attachment 434073 [details] Scaled up version of latarcyrheb-sun16 Here's the scaled up font I'm using on my system as an example. Also see the mailing list thread: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-July/378865.html
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Still a problem in fedora 15.
Thanks for the scaled font, I added it to the kbd package in Rawhide. The font is placed in /lib/kbd/consolefonts/latarcyrheb-sun32.psfu.gz and can be used by modifying /etc/sysconfig/i18n or directly via setfont command. I think that's not necessary to scale other fonts for now, latarcyrheb is probably used by majority of users. But I'll do it for particular font when requested.