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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] make boot console maintain a hi-res thru-out boot
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 01:23:52
Message-Id: 86efyoe60e.fsf@reader.local.lan
1 One of my vbox gentoo vms, on boot, comes up on the grub screen
2 in a nice hi-res console. Very early in the boot procedure that
3 hi-res console collapses into a standard console resoltion and stays
4 there from then on.
5
6 It is possible to set things so that one maintains a hi-res console
7 all the time... Correct?
8
9 If so, I'd like to know what needs to be set. I have followed up
10 reading about this subject in gentoo documents, one source says you cannot
11 make any driver selections in kernel setup at:
12
13 Device drivers ->
14 Graphics support ->
15 Framebuffer Devices ->
16 Make no selections of drivers here
17
18
19 There are choices within the address above that look like the kind
20 of thing you'd check but the guide I was reading said any choices
21 there would block KMS which could get settings at:.
22
23 Device drivers ->
24 Graphics support ->
25 Console display driver support --->
26 Frame buffer console sup. is default selected an
27 [*]Frame Buffer console sup is default selected
28 cannot be changed (on kernel-4.9.10)
29 ditto for:
30 [*]map the conosle tor primary disp device
31
32 There are several more there but these two may be
33 the place:
34 []initial number of console screen columns
35 []initial number of console screen rows
36
37 There isn't much else there... things like scrollback
38 size [...] and initil console size
39
40 So are these settings what control KMS console sizing?
41
42 For example if you weree to set something like 140 and 60 for columns
43 and rows... would then have a console that size
44
45 Or is it the settings in /etc/defalt/grub where their are a couple of
46 options about geometry?
47
48 Both maybe?