TTY Resolution

[Henry Standing]

Spot on.

Many thanks

H

On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 10:01 -0500, Kenton Brede wrote:
> 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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