TTY Resolution

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> 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

Thanks...
1024x768  works gret, although at first, I used 24bit colour depth, and
it was painfully slow when trying for example to make a "ls -l" i a
directory with lots of files. I set it to 8bit and it's much quicker.
Not as fast/responsive 640x480x8, but good enough for the purpose...


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Vince, with great looking tty now :-)