I'm new to Linux and have just installed Mandrake 10.1 for the first time, but when it starts up, the font is so tiny, I can't read it. The icons are regular sized though.

My motherboard is a Giga-byte, GA-6VLE with integrated graphics. I let the installation program automatically detect the graphics card (Xorg: Vesa).

Graphics-wise, everything looks normal from the icons to the windows and background. Only the text is unreadably tiny. I thought there might be some option to increase the font size, but since I can't read anything on the screen, I'm pretty much fumbling in the dark here.

Any suggestions?

yes you can increase the font size from the control center

you could use this pic (screenshot) as a guideline

http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/sl...e=193&slide=59

I have MDK 10 but this should work in 10.1 as well.

As root go to etc/X11/xdm/xservers, look for this line:
0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -deferglyphs 16
Add this to the end of that line. -dpi 96

You can change this to whatever you like such as
-dpi 100 to increase the size.

Don't remove anything just add the extra to the line.
This worked for me, but you can do a search on this forum
there a lot of tutorials on how to change the fonts.

Dooley

Thanks Dooley, that was exactly what I needed.

I'm new to Linux and my GNOME is fine with fonts for all menus, browsers etc, but when I boot up in KDE, my Mozilla toolbar fonts are super tiny...Even some Apps within KDE show Super tiny fonts on their toolbars.
I have went into the system menu to change font size, change and resized my desktop and nothing works.
Why would my desktop be fine but my apps show little itty bitty unrreadable fonts?
I've even installed Windows fonts and set everything in the system to no smaller than 10 pt to as large as 14pt. It seems the only sizing that changes is the desktop, menu views and icons. Please help.

So far I've gotten nowhere and I've spent hours reading and trying to figure out what's wrong.