On Thu June 1 2006 05:41 am, Juha Tuuna wrote: > On Thursday, 1. June 2006 00:33, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > Alan Ianson wrote: > > > On this particular machine I am working on I get a text screen size of > > > 80x25. I'd like to change it to 80x30, or perhaps I need a 640x480 > > > frame buffer. Is there a way I can change that from the command line, > > > or in grub's menu.list maybe? > > > > Yes, with the 'vga=' option in grub's menu.lst. > > These are some of the url's that provide some clarity: > > > > http://www.colug.net/pipermail/colug432/2005-October/001613.html > > http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/grub-images/configs/linux/menu.lst > > > > 'vga=ask' seems to provide a list of choices. Never tried it myself > > though. > > As far as I'm concerned it lists "only" some of the possible modes and not > any framebuffer modes at all. On some display adapters some of the probed > modes actually do work but on every adapter. > Install hwinfo and probe your framebuffer: > # hwinfo --framebuffer > That should give a comprehensive list of available modes. They've worked > for me quite well this far. There is a change that you'll be experiencing > some weird stuff on some hardware and Sarge (at least) if you're using the > the same mode in console and X (Xfree86).
I had been trying to use vga=xxx all by itself in menu.list.. once I appended it to the kernel line I was good to go. :) I will get hwinfo installed and experiment. Thanks for the replies. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
