Re: [gentoo-user] How to increase console (text) screen resolution

[Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>]

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On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:

> 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 So either I missed something in the kernel or that stanza is outdated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.)
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VESA framebuffer should work with absolutely everything PC-derived. I don't
know the grub configuration details, though.

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