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* [gentoo-user] high resolution console
@ 2013-05-16 14:05 Tamer Higazi
  2013-05-16 14:48 ` Bruce Hill
  2013-05-17  0:31 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Tamer Higazi @ 2013-05-16 14:05 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Hi people!
I want to have a feature installed on my gentoo machine, that if I boot
I am will see a high resolution console.

When I boot from the system rescue cd, at boot time it is being switch
to a higher resolution, which I want to have on my default system as well.

Can somebody of you tell me, how to accomplish this task?!


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* Re: [gentoo-user] high resolution console
  2013-05-16 14:05 [gentoo-user] high resolution console Tamer Higazi
@ 2013-05-16 14:48 ` Bruce Hill
  2013-05-16 14:55   ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
  2013-05-17  0:31 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Bruce Hill @ 2013-05-16 14:48 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 04:05:32PM +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote:
> Hi people!
> I want to have a feature installed on my gentoo machine, that if I boot
> I am will see a high resolution console.
> 
> When I boot from the system rescue cd, at boot time it is being switch
> to a higher resolution, which I want to have on my default system as well.
> 
> Can somebody of you tell me, how to accomplish this task?!

Start by following this guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml
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Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting


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* [gentoo-user] Re: high resolution console
  2013-05-16 14:48 ` Bruce Hill
@ 2013-05-16 14:55   ` Nikos Chantziaras
  2013-05-16 15:50     ` Neil Bothwick
  2013-05-16 15:54     ` Bruce Hill
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Nikos Chantziaras @ 2013-05-16 14:55 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On 16/05/13 17:48, Bruce Hill wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 04:05:32PM +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote:
>> Hi people!
>> I want to have a feature installed on my gentoo machine, that if I boot
>> I am will see a high resolution console.
>>
>> When I boot from the system rescue cd, at boot time it is being switch
>> to a higher resolution, which I want to have on my default system as well.
>>
>> Can somebody of you tell me, how to accomplish this task?!
>
> Start by following this guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml

That's for X11, not for the console.



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* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: high resolution console
  2013-05-16 14:55   ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
@ 2013-05-16 15:50     ` Neil Bothwick
  2013-05-16 15:54     ` Bruce Hill
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Neil Bothwick @ 2013-05-16 15:50 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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On Thu, 16 May 2013 17:55:44 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> >> I want to have a feature installed on my gentoo machine, that if I
> >> boot I am will see a high resolution console.
> >>
> >> When I boot from the system rescue cd, at boot time it is being
> >> switch to a higher resolution, which I want to have on my default
> >> system as well.
> >>
> >> Can somebody of you tell me, how to accomplish this task?!  
> >
> > Start by following this guide:
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml  
> 
> That's for X11, not for the console.

There's a part in it covering KMS, which is what the OP needs, but you'd
have to know what you want in order t find it.


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* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: high resolution console
  2013-05-16 14:55   ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
  2013-05-16 15:50     ` Neil Bothwick
@ 2013-05-16 15:54     ` Bruce Hill
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Bruce Hill @ 2013-05-16 15:54 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 05:55:44PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >
> > Start by following this guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml
> 
> That's for X11, not for the console.

I believe if you'll *read* that guide, Kernel modesetting will be there.
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.                                                                                                                                                          
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?                                                                                                                                                                                        
A: Top-posting.                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting


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* Re: [gentoo-user] high resolution console
  2013-05-16 14:05 [gentoo-user] high resolution console Tamer Higazi
  2013-05-16 14:48 ` Bruce Hill
@ 2013-05-17  0:31 ` Paul Hartman
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Paul Hartman @ 2013-05-17  0:31 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Tamer Higazi <th982a@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi people!
> I want to have a feature installed on my gentoo machine, that if I boot
> I am will see a high resolution console.
>
> When I boot from the system rescue cd, at boot time it is being switch
> to a higher resolution, which I want to have on my default system as well.
>
> Can somebody of you tell me, how to accomplish this task?!

Possible solutions that you can google for more details:

kernel modesetting (if you don't use nvidia-drivers)
uvesafb
vesafb
fbterm (a userland program)
jfbterm (like fbterm focused on multilingual/utf8 support)

You may also want or need to install gpm for console mouse support


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