2017-08-10 – Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX7
ferry to Ko Tao, Chumphon, Thailand
a couple weeks ago, Alpine Linux rolled out their 3.22 release and I went ahead
and updated – and everything went fine – except during boot I was now staring
at a huge console font instead of the familiar VGA font – Alpine used the 3.22
release to include a 2019 patch from Takashi Iwai that checked for high
resolution systems and swapped in the more legible TER16x32 font
for the smaller VGA8x16 font – there’s nothing wrong with Terminus,
I’m just more comfortable with VGA – so, add fbcon=font:VGA8x16 to
the tail end of GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in
/etc/default/grub, and then run doas update-grub and
everything’s back to (so-called) «normal»
Fonts - Alpine Linux ↗
fonts: Prefer a bigger font for high resolution screens ↗
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