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I have a Raspberry pi B, and downloaded and installed "2012-10-28-wheezy-raspbian.img." I am using a 3.5 inch VGA TFT-LCD monitor, where the tiny font was hard to read, but I have managed to increase it (thanks to recantha, who answered my question "how") using "setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/Lat15-TerminusBold20x10.psf.gz". But now there is a letter missing on any line that reaches the right hand edge of the screen. I believe I should amend "/boot/config.txt" to correct this but I do not have that file, although all references suggest it should be there already.

At first I could not find out how to turn the thing off, and I thought that unplugging it may have corrupted things, so I have just downloaded the .img and flashed the SD card again. Two things puzzle me: I still do not have a "/boot/config.txt" file; and the font came up big and bold, whereas I would have expected it to go back to the original size, so where was that information carried over the re-installation?

I'm still floundering, any help would be much appreciated.

Harry Weston
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Did you run the setup properly at the first boot?Also you can run it again using the command

$sudo raspi-config

To manually add the file, just add a new file config.txt to the /boot folder.You can find the options from the elinux website.

I think changes are made to the firmware so it was still there after reflashing the sd card.

Hope it helps.

SteveIrwin
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Try to use "rpi-update". Last time I ran it, I remember it spoke about the config.txt file. Maybe it will generate a new one ;-)

Tiwenty
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You can just set it back. It used to be a symlink. Apparently some editors broke and instead of fixing the car you change the road. Typical. You can easily put it back with:

sudo rm /boot/config.txt
sudo ln -s /boot/firmware/config.txt /boot/config.txt #(and maybe some other options)

Then change the gas and brake pedal in the car of the light who came up with this.

Marian.
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