From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RGvHc-0002tK-FS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:15:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8E824E068E; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:15:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f47.google.com (mail-pz0-f47.google.com [209.85.210.47]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFAFD21C048 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:14:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzd13 with SMTP id 13so8069282pzd.6 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:14:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=leV6HygFAMRkLDFVh0YPcYqqjd65XGwLH07xHJxVa4Y=; b=kczlFngudlCXtcTLovrks6VUpD0oYWYjwZcAX+sFp72Ty8rtF2x837oIF7lasmdwtj 06h+WqD/zunNfH0gh6sWEAwfpIgqtzyNGTsZjTnxL9Vu3QOS7OzJYL051ORvieu8IiTP ovUHz+UwgvRtJtMSH2bMHbIpa0qswl5Jfloyo= Received: by 10.68.10.70 with SMTP id g6mr21052071pbb.65.1319127274267; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:14:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from badass.gateway.2wire.net (adsl-69-108-24-77.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net. [69.108.24.77]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ko15sm20318468pbb.9.2011.10.20.09.14.32 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:14:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:14:45 -0700 From: ny6p01@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I set the resolution of console ? Message-ID: <20111020161445.GA24845@badass.gateway.2wire.net> References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 3b9858235d845e63f1c98cac9536c275 On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 02:05:20PM +0800, Lavender wrote: > I edit the command line of grub at boot time . > I passed some parametres to kernel like below: > > root=/dev/sda6 video=atyfb:1024x768@60m > > and I also tried another one: > > root=/dev/sda6 video=aty128fb:1024x768@60m > > Both of them didn't show any error messages and the system > can start up, but the resolution still no changed. > > There is an issue happened in my buiding kernel : I hadn't found > the driver for my video card. I'm not sure whether it has anything > to do with this issue? > > BTW, my video card information is below: > > ATI Technologies Inc M92 LP (ATI Radeon 4330 series) Have you tried the setfont utility?