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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to increase console (text) screen resolution
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:36:16
Message-Id: CAEH5T2M6_Z2L4Uw0frmZPSojSytTRFdi1wNVfKAXDJVDsAc=WA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How to increase console (text) screen resolution by Harry Putnam
1 On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote:
2 > What is the simplest way to get a higher resolution screen when
3 > booting gentoo into console mode?
4 >
5 > I used to have something in /boot/grub/grub.conf that did that but I
6 > have forgotten the full syntax.  My best guess is:
7 >    [...] vga=0x31a video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap
8 > on kernel line.
9 >
10 > With that in place, at bootup the terminal expands to a (quite a lot)
11 > bigger size, but it's only momentary and then right back down to what
12 > is I guess default.
13 >
14 > So either I missed something in the kernel or that stanza is outdated
15 > now.
16 >
17 > Or maybe, FB doesn't work for vbox guest vm.
18 >
19 > (ps I'm not interest in wasting huge amounts of time with the KMS
20 > approach.)
21
22 See if you have /etc/init.d/consolefont running at startup, it may be
23 changing your font from the one you see initially.

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[gentoo-user] Re: How to increase console (text) screen resolution Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>