From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to increase console (text) screen resolution
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 17:33:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEH5T2M6_Z2L4Uw0frmZPSojSytTRFdi1wNVfKAXDJVDsAc=WA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877h282h1d.fsf@newsguy.com>
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:44 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 So either I missed something in the kernel or that stanza is outdated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.)
See if you have /etc/init.d/consolefont running at startup, it may be
changing your font from the one you see initially.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-07 23:36 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
2011-12-08 0:09 ` Paul Hartman
2011-12-08 0:43 ` Michael Mol
2011-12-07 23:33 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2011-12-07 23:52 ` 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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