TTY Resolution

[Kenton Brede]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 03:41:49PM +0100, Henry Standing (lists at opml.co.uk) wrote:
> How does one change the resolution of the ttys ?
> 
> I seem to remember tinkering with lilo.conf in the dark-ages before
> GRUB.

I used the following chart I found online somewhere -

                           Resolution in pixels

Color depth      |   640x480      800x600      1024x768      1280x1024
256        (8bit)|     769          771           773           775
32000     (15bit)|     784          787           790           793
65000     (16bit)|     785          788           791           794
16.7 Mill.(24bit)|     786          789           792           795

Then added "vga=792" to the end of the kernel line in
/boot/grub/menu.lst like so -

kernel   /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro console=tty0 quiet vga=792

Kent

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