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 1RYuV8-0000Av-77 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:04:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7847E21C114; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 07:03:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52BE221C220 for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 07:01:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbds1 with SMTP id ds1so4728055wgb.10 for ; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:01:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=5W5ZXpvv0NkT/nmNoihKkrYHPzDz+T6AeHSv+BlQmxo=; b=pvy1cXXE2EnuV2fxwLgt2wLLfb3ACuqq7CLIS2otcKwPk7j37ny/POgdvs2PRlYFKQ rEMprBsk8ORnAaBD4pvw7jvsT2slKU9SArOJDcnW3B71D6FNVVl+x3krX8KVpd+b8JYL clXjjvehwe8v/2eZxHI+0pNe2o+F//xgtVKUg= Received: by 10.227.58.17 with SMTP id e17mr6249106wbh.12.1323414105340; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:01:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m5sm12105940wie.2.2011.12.08.23.01.43 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:01:43 -0800 (PST) From: Mick 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.0.6-gentoo; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <877h282h1d.fsf@newsguy.com> <20111208055338.GB13528@eisen.lan> <8739cuzl0m.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <8739cuzl0m.fsf@newsguy.com> 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart94536558.Dh8S5QjNrH"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201112090701.42430.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 22049557-f20e-488e-b25e-4594d70c227c X-Archives-Hash: 606012d4b511870e9fdd8b42c5f6eda8 --nextPart94536558.Dh8S5QjNrH Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thursday 08 Dec 2011 23:44:25 Harry Putnam wrote: > Frank Steinmetzger writes: > > AFAIK you also need to use a supporting Graphics driver. I, for instanc= e, >=20 > 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=3D1024x768 to your kernel line? I know this is a KMS way of specifying the resolution= ,=20 but it may just work with recent kernels. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart94536558.Dh8S5QjNrH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk7hslYACgkQVTDTR3kpaLZY7QCgwPMfK+IoTLHUJ18c1siaGBjj bhsAn0IkgESGxeia/CdUQ2r7c2ww1lBK =G1eY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart94536558.Dh8S5QjNrH--