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.
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Regards,
Mick
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prev parent 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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