On Sun,29.Mar.09, 13:08:37, Tim McDonough wrote: > I have a fairly new Debian install with no GUI. How do I configure (what > command or file) the console to have higher resolution and greater than > an 80-column width for the text?
Run as root: # hwinfo --framebuffer (package hwinfo, not installed by default) This will get you a list of all modes supported by your card. Select the one you want and add it to the 'defoptions' line in /boot/grub/menu.lst like this: # defoptions=quiet vga=0x368 (don't remove the "#") and then run 'update-grub' and reboot. You should have a new video mode and the text size will change accordingly because console font size is defined in pixels. If further tweaking is still necessary (for example you want a high resolution, but the font is too small) then install 'console-setup' and run ar root: dpkg-reconfigure console-setup Enjoy, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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