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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] high resolution console
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On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Tamer Higazi <th982a@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi people!
> I want to have a feature installed on my gentoo machine, that if I boot
> I am will see a high resolution console.
>
> When I boot from the system rescue cd, at boot time it is being switch
> to a higher resolution, which I want to have on my default system as well.
>
> Can somebody of you tell me, how to accomplish this task?!

Possible solutions that you can google for more details:

kernel modesetting (if you don't use nvidia-drivers)
uvesafb
vesafb
fbterm (a userland program)
jfbterm (like fbterm focused on multilingual/utf8 support)

You may also want or need to install gpm for console mouse support