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 1RYPKn-0007wA-R0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:47:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CFF7C21C0B3; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 21:47:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 773C121C08A for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 21:45:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08C2C1B400E for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 21:45:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -4.795 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.795 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.608, BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-1.201, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=ham Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id y9btePZqOAUM for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 21:45:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC6241B400F for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 21:45:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RYPJ3-00022z-FF for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:45:37 +0100 Received: from c-98-215-179-64.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.179.64]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:45:37 +0100 Received: from reader by c-98-215-179-64.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:45:37 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] How to increase console (text) screen resolution Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:44:30 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <877h282h1d.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: text/plain X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-179-64.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RLywCf086h6q9V0DAZoom/25/l4= X-Archives-Salt: d62d4cd4-d551-4edf-824a-14f965436794 X-Archives-Hash: dc0f065c2b3cddbd551104419dda083d What is the simplest way to get a higher resolution screen when booting gentoo into console mode? I used to have something in /boot/grub/grub.conf that did that but I have forgotten the full syntax. My best guess is: [...] vga=0x31a video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap on kernel line. With that in place, at bootup the terminal expands to a (quite a lot) bigger size, but it's only momentary and then right back down to what is I guess default. So either I missed something in the kernel or that stanza is outdated now. Or maybe, FB doesn't work for vbox guest vm. (ps I'm not interest in wasting huge amounts of time with the KMS approach.)