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From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to increase console (text) screen resolution
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:57:35 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ipls0wb4.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 201112072303.13391.michaelkintzios@gmail.com

Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> writes:

> Have you tried:
>
>    vga=ask
>
> It'll give you a list of hopefully supported resolutions.

Yes but those are not really resolutions are they?... I thought they
were actual font size changes.

5 is closest but any of the smaller ones look too silly and
unreadable.  Whereas a hefty resolution like 1200 over 1024 looks
nice, just smaller.

I moved away, yrs ago from using vga=ask because it really does not
have a satisfactory view setting.  5 is best, but also seem a bit
large, the next one looks too crowded and ugly.




  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-08  0:00 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 [this message]
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

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