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StifflerStealth Retired Dev
Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 968
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 8:26 pm Post subject: How do you change the resolution of the consol? |
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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.
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fghellar Bodhisattva
Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 856 Location: Porto Alegre, BR
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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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... _________________ | www.gentoo.org | www.tldp.org | www.google.com | |
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StifflerStealth Retired Dev
Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 968
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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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.
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fsck_ms n00b
Joined: 02 Jul 2002 Posts: 25 Location: just outside reality
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Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2002 1:07 am Post subject: |
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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:
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root (hd0,4)
kernel /bzImage root=/dev/hda7 hdc=ide-scsi vga=788 |
And here's a link to some vga= options. They're near the bottom of the page. _________________ fortune: The best defense against logic is ignorance. |
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Fester n00b
Joined: 04 Jul 2002 Posts: 41 Location: Los Angeles, CA (USC)
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Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2002 6:42 am Post subject: |
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fsck_ms wrote: | 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 |
vga=ask works for me with Grub under RedHat 7.2. (Planning to switch to Gentoo in a week or two) so there's no incompatibility between that option and grub itself. |
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Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2002 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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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.
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