font size when running under emulation?

[Bert Freudenberg]

X under emulation uses the kernel frame buffer device and cannot  
change its resolution. You need to set a different resolution in the  
kernel arguments:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Emulating_the_XO/ 
Help_and_tips#Setting_Framebuffer_resolution

This lets you do 1280x1024. No emulator currently supports 1200x900  
as far as I know. And I'm not sure if the kernel would use it if it did.

- Bert -

On Oct 8, 2007, at 18:30 , David Feldman wrote:

> Thanks. That worked great: I set the monitor size and now have a  
> nice big font. Follow-up question, though: how do I increase the  
> emulated screen resolution to the standard 1200x900 or something  
> close to it? I've tried various tweaks to xorg.conf based on some  
> information on the wiki, but it always comes up 1024x768.
>
> Thanks again,
> --Dave
>
> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> On Oct 5, 2007, at 21:12 , David Feldman wrote:
>>> I just installed the OLPC software in VMWare and Qemu, but the  
>>> font size
>>> is so small that I have trouble reading it. My understanding is that
>>> this is an emulation (screen resolution) issue and it'll be a lot  
>>> larger
>>> on the actual OLPC?
>>>
>>> Is there some way to configure the screen resolution on the virtual
>>> machine to approximate that of the OLPC hardware so I get roughly  
>>> the
>>> actual font size?
>> https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3681
>> - Bert -