Command Line Interfaces

[Pete Holsberg]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 14:54 -0400, Pete Holsberg wrote:
>> What controls the resolution in the console?
>>
>> Pretend I'm a Unix geek. Now what's your answer? :-)
> 
> Pass a vga= command line to the kernel to change the resolution. Google
> for "grub vga modes" or something.
> You can also use a framebuffer, which would give you higher resolutions
> easily.
> 
> /etc/console-tools/config to change the font.

Went into the BIOS and changed "onboard video buffer" from 1MB to 8MB.

And now I have the desired 10s4x768 in console mode!!!

Thanks to all for your suggestions.