How do you change the resolution of the consol?

StifflerStealth · Retired Dev Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 968

I tried searching for this question and recieved a No topics found. I do not have X installed, and I've seen other ppl's linux machines with a high consol resolution, so I know it can be done. I would like to increase it to 1280x1024. If it's possible to go that high.
Thanks.

fghellar · Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 8:49 pm Post subject:

What you are looking for is called frame buffer support. I don't use it myself, so I can't tell much about it, but knowing the name will certainly help you find some info... :wink:

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StifflerStealth · Retired Dev Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 968

Thanks for your quick reply.
I found some commands to change the resolution, but does anybody no the commands for grub. I want to display the menu of resolution choices like the "vga=ask" does for lilo. I tried that command, but it didn't work.

Thanks

fsck_ms · Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2002 1:07 am Post subject:

Make sure you have frame buffer console compiled into your kernel, of course. I don't remember if vga=ask worked for me in grub or not, but I can specify which resolution to use. Here's what I do:

Fester · Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2002 6:42 am Post subject:

Guest · Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2002 2:05 pm Post subject:

Thanks for all your help! It turns out that I put the vga=ask in the wrong line of the file. Ooops. I never tried the frame buffer setting until now, so my mistakes are understandable.

Thanks