From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] about console resolution
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:29:57 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1132556397.11004.56.camel@orpheus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85901b690511202228q17f8a424t3cb3c7a538166b00@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 08:28 +0200, sempsteen wrote:
> Hi,
> My screen resolution outside of X is 720x400. I don't know in which
> file this is set and i want to change it because whenever splash
> starts it tries to load 720x400.cfg file. I've tried to change it on
> grub.conf file but nothing happens, it always switches back to
> 720x400. I've tried these in grub.conf file just to be sure that
> resolution works:
>
> kernel /kernel-2.6.14-gentoo-r2 root=/dev/hda4 vga=ask
vga= is not for vesafb-tng!
> - The scan result returned a maximum resolution of 132x60
this is characters (wide) and lines (long), not resolution!
> kernel /kernel-2.6.14-gentoo-r2 root=/dev/hda4 video=vesafb:1024x768-32@80
> - It switches to 720x400 (for all video=vesafb:resolutions)
try
video=vesafb:1024x768-24@60
note the "24" colour depth, and the "60" refresh rate. Once this works,
you can try higher numbers.
> In kernel I've enabled these:
> <*>nVidia Framebuffer Support
not sure, but I don't think you need this one - ie. choose either
vesafb-tng _or_ nvidia framebuffer...
I'm guessing, but 720x400 may be something the nvidia framebuffer is
determining, and overriding vesafb-tng... dunno...
> Can you help me?
I hope so :^)
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2005-11-21 6:28 [gentoo-user] about console resolution sempsteen
2005-11-21 6:59 ` Iain Buchanan [this message]
2005-11-21 13:45 ` sempsteen
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