changing console resolution

[Adam Mercer]

On 27/11/05, Glenn Holmer <gholmer at ameritech.net> wrote:

> How do you change the resolution of the tty consoles (ctrl-alt-F1,
> ctrl-alt-F2, etc.), e.g. from 640x480 to 800x600?

Use a framebuffer, see the framebuffer howto

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html

Essentially you need to append something like the following to your
default kernel options in your grub config

video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr vga=0x31A

this sets a vesa framebuffer with a resolution of 1280x1024x16, see
the above howto for all the details

Cheers

Adam