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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to increase console (text) screen resolution
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 07:01:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201112090701.42430.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8739cuzl0m.fsf@newsguy.com>

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On Thursday 08 Dec 2011 23:44:25 Harry Putnam wrote:
> Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de> writes:
> > AFAIK you also need to use a supporting Graphics driver. I, for instance,
> 
> Even for a no X setup?.  What ever it needs must be there since it
> pops up in a high resolution, but then drops back.  If the good
> weren't there to create that resolution, I doubt it would enter a high
> res at all.

Have you tried passing something like:

  video=1024x768

to your kernel line?  I know this is a KMS way of specifying the resolution, 
but it may just work with recent kernels.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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      reply	other threads:[~2011-12-09  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-07 21:44 [gentoo-user] How to increase console (text) screen resolution Harry Putnam
2011-12-07 21:55 ` Michael Mol
2011-12-07 22:34   ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2011-12-07 23:03     ` Mick
2011-12-07 23:57       ` Harry Putnam
2011-12-08  0:09         ` Paul Hartman
2011-12-08  0:43           ` Michael Mol
2011-12-07 23:33 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2011-12-07 23:52   ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2011-12-08  0:02     ` Neil Bothwick
2011-12-08  0:36       ` Harry Putnam
2011-12-08  0:42         ` Harry Putnam
2011-12-08  5:53           ` Frank Steinmetzger
2011-12-08 23:44             ` Harry Putnam
2011-12-09  7:01               ` Mick [this message]

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