On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 04:39:09PM EDT, Andrei Popescu wrote: > 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)
I did an "hwinfo --all" .. untypically without first reading the manual and when it started probing and my hardware started groaning I thought hmm.. maybe I shouldn't have done that. But thanks for the tip, all went well and I'm rather amazed at the stuff hwinfo spits out.. especially with the --log logfile option. > This will get you a list of all modes supported by your card. Not quite. My ATI "mach64" not only supports 1400x1050 but it's also the only mode I would want to use since it is my LCD panel's native mode - any other resolution gives me ugly blurred fonts. Yet, "hwinfo --framebuffer" does not list this mode. So it's not the card's capabilities that are listed but _maybe_ what the vesa fb driver is able to support for this particular card ... you won't offend me if you reply that the way I put it makes not sense... :-) I had to enable my card's specific atyfb driver via an initramfs and ask grub to do a "video=atyfb:1400x1050" to get what I want. If the OP wants to dig further, I would add that he may want to take a close look at Alex Buell's excellent "Framebuffer Howto". [..] CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
