[Bug 158766] Re: tty console resolution

2008-11-26 Thread Colin Watson
Unfortunately, using a VESA mode (with vga=) has the side-effect of breaking suspend and resume. This is a fairly well-known problem and if it's ever fixed then we'll reconsider it, but for the time being having suspend and resume work by default is more important to us than a high console resoluti

[Bug 158766] Re: tty console resolution

2008-10-22 Thread Dimitrios Symeonidis
switched it back to new i will confirm the problem for older releases and with usplash on intrepid so basically you are suggesting that ubuntu somehow autodetect the best possible vesa mode and enable it? ** Changed in: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- tty console resol

[Bug 158766] Re: tty console resolution

2008-10-22 Thread EagleScreen
Yes, i am talking about the use of that parameters, but there are some problems with Ubuntu and its use: -On Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10 and 8.04, a special font is used by default for tty consoles, this is incompatible with the use of these parameters, and cause tty consoles cannot be shown property if you

[Bug 158766] Re: tty console resolution

2008-10-21 Thread Dimitrios Symeonidis
The answer is passing a "vga=xyz" parameter to the kernel during grub. These are called vesa modes, and a list can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS#Linux_video_mode_numbers EagleScreen, is this what you were looking for? ** Changed in: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) Status: New

[Bug 158766] Re: tty console resolution

2008-10-21 Thread Dimitrios Symeonidis
possibly related to the vesafb driver? if true, we should assign to linux -- tty console resolution https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/158766 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubu