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On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 21:05:11 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> > You're supposed to use a video= parameter but I find the old school |
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> > vga=794 works for me. The thing you have to learn with using GRUB, or |
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> > at least when using grub-mkconfig, is that you don't edit grub.cfg |
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> > but /etc/default/grub when you want to add kernel parameters. |
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> What does vga=794 get you? |
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> I've used `vga=0x31b video=vesfb:mtrr:3,ywrap' with grub:0 a few yrs |
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> and get a nice size (1280x1024x32 [I think]) |
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vga=794 gets you the same but in 16 bit, I find 65000 colours is enough |
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for bash :-) 0x31b is 795, but I tend to remember those codes in decimal, |
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however much it hurts my geek cred. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." |
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