Changing the resolution of a virtual terminal

[Pete Holsberg]

Felix Miata keyed the following on 6/24/2007 7:51 PM:
>  On 2007/06/24 13:47 (GMT-0400) Pete Holsberg apparently typed:
>
> >> sudo hwinfo --framebuffer
>
> > Here's what I got from hwinfo:
>
> > product name [0x07f54] = "Intel(r)845G/845GL/845GE/845GV Graphics
> > Controller" product revision [0x07f87] = "Hardware Version 0.0" 22
> > video modes:
>  ...
> > I tried vga=0x0117 and 010c and 0114 but still have no joy.
>
>  I installed Feisty on i845G today. hwinfo --framebuffer here lists
>  only mode 301, 640x480.
>
>  I've tried framebuffer on a lot of distros over the years, and IIRC,
>  on i8xx video chips the only thing besides vga=normal that ever works
>  with standard framebuffer is vga=0x120. There are others that should
>  work, but don't: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7513
>
>  There is or was once an i810fb alternative, but I've never managed to
>  get it to work. http://i810fb.sourceforge.net/howto/x11.html

X11? We're not talking about resolution under X Windows System here, are we?

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Pete Holsberg
Columbus, NJ

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