Re: Set widescreen resolution in console

2013-10-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 16 October 2013 20:23:51 Dmitrii Kashin wrote: > Lisi Reisz writes: > > On Wednesday 16 October 2013 13:14:06 Chris Bannister wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 09:23:16PM +0400, Dmitrii Kashin wrote: > >> > >> "I am not entirely certain but I don't think it has a number > >> yet, bu

Re: Set widescreen resolution in console

2013-10-16 Thread Dmitrii Kashin
Lisi Reisz writes: > On Wednesday 16 October 2013 13:14:06 Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 09:23:16PM +0400, Dmitrii Kashin wrote: >> >> "I am not entirely certain but I don't think it has a number yet, >> but If it has already then I'd expect it to be Debian 8 or will be >> Debi

Re: Set widescreen resolution in console

2013-10-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 16 October 2013 13:14:06 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 09:23:16PM +0400, Dmitrii Kashin wrote: > > Lisi Reisz writes: > > > On Monday 14 October 2013 00:29:26 Antonio Paiva wrote: > > >> what is Debian > > >> Jessie? > > > > > > The current Testing. It has not, I b

Re: Set widescreen resolution in console

2013-10-15 Thread Dmitrii Kashin
Lisi Reisz writes: > On Monday 14 October 2013 00:29:26 Antonio Paiva wrote: >> what is Debian >> Jessie? > > The current Testing. It has not, I believe, got a number yet, but I > would expect it to be Debian 8 eventually. You're wrong. It has. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/20

Re: Set widescreen resolution in console

2013-10-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 14 October 2013 00:29:26 Antonio Paiva wrote: > what is Debian > Jessie? The current Testing. It has not, I believe, got a number yet, but I would expect it to be Debian 8 eventually. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Set widescreen resolution in console

2013-10-13 Thread Antonio Paiva
I don't have to use the new kernel. Whatever works... But, what is Debian Jessie? On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Dmitrii Kashin wrote: > Antonio Paiva writes: > > >>> I have recently acquired an old Sony Vaio PCG-C1VN (aka, a > "PictureBook") > >>> and installed Debian wheezy. The problem i

RE: Set widescreen resolution in console

2013-10-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 16:14:14 -0400, Antonio Paiva wrote: > On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 00:25:06 +0400, Dmitrii Kashin wrote: >> >> First of all, have you tried to boot your kernel with vga=ask option? > > Thank you Dmitrii. > > I did try "vga=ask" but that option is no longer supported by the > debian k

Re: Set widescreen resolution in console

2013-10-13 Thread Dmitrii Kashin
Antonio Paiva writes: >>> I have recently acquired an old Sony Vaio PCG-C1VN (aka, a "PictureBook") >>> and installed Debian wheezy. The problem is that I can only get the >>> *console* to run at 640x480 resolution. >> >> First of all, have you tried to boot your kernel with vga=ask option? > > I

RE: Set widescreen resolution in console

2013-10-12 Thread Antonio Paiva
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Set widescreen resolution in console Antonio Paiva writes: > Hi everyone, > > I have recently acquired an old Sony Vaio PCG-C1VN (aka, a "PictureBook") > and installed Debian wheezy. The problem is that I can only get the > *console* to

Re: Set widescreen resolution in console

2013-10-12 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 09 Oct 2013 21:16:11 -0400 (EDT), Antonio Paiva wrote: > > I have recently acquired an old Sony Vaio PCG-C1VN (aka, a "PictureBook") > and installed Debian wheezy. The problem is that I can only get the > *console* to run at 640x480 resolution. > > The C1VN has a (very wide) native resolu

Re: Set widescreen resolution in console

2013-10-10 Thread Dmitrii Kashin
Antonio Paiva writes: > Hi everyone, > > I have recently acquired an old Sony Vaio PCG-C1VN (aka, a "PictureBook") > and installed Debian wheezy. The problem is that I can only get the > *console* to run at 640x480 resolution. First of all, have you tried to boot your kernel with vga=ask option?

Set widescreen resolution in console

2013-10-09 Thread Antonio Paiva
Hi everyone, I have recently acquired an old Sony Vaio PCG-C1VN (aka, a "PictureBook") and installed Debian wheezy. The problem is that I can only get the *console* to run at 640x480 resolution. The C1VN has a (very wide) native resolution of 1024x480, but using only 640x480 is a serious waste of