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 1RYQ75-0002Tf-P9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:37:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1DB7421C46F; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 22:37:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E94721C468 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 22:35:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A51BE65386 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 22:35:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -4.796 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.796 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.607, 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 94zicZBvh_1u for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 22:35:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 665DC1B400A for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 22:35:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RYQ5U-0006g8-CY for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:35:40 +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 23:35:40 +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 23:35:40 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to increase console (text) screen resolution Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:34:33 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87zkf4105i.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <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:VudY9CYjpHOQ/MkdnFrg8bZgsi4= X-Archives-Salt: a10ddf96-e823-4a9e-b152-71ee1732f0ed X-Archives-Hash: 029de9fc555438dc38a53e345d43729d [...] Harry wrote: >> [...] vga=0x31a video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap (Does not work with newly installed gentoo guest on win7 Vbox) Michael Mol responded: > VESA framebuffer should work with absolutely everything PC-derived. I don't > know the grub configuration details, though. Sorry.. yes... here it is: /boot/grub/grub.conf default 0 timeout 10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title vgen root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 vga=0x31A video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap # initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.24-gentoo-r5 # vim:ft=conf: