Virtual Terminal Resolution

jludwig wralphie at comcast.net
Mon Jul 5 02:15:20 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 19:56, Mark Fairchild wrote:
> How can I change the resolution of the virtual terminals in Fedora 2?  
> I've tried setting the "vga=794" kernel parameter, but the vt resolution 
> gets reset during initialization!  I hate having a tiny 80x25 terminal 
> -- Mandrake has spoiled me with nice big 1280x1024 framebuffer 
> terminals.  It sure makes administration easier, boy howdy.
> 
> -- 
> Mark Fairchild <mdfairch at sfu.ca>
> Learn Lisp today!  Uncle Turing wants you!
Try mine;
 /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2197.nptl ro root=LABEL=/1 hdc=ide-scsi vga=0x31a

Also you can get grub to probe for available settings.
-- 
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>





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