Command Line Interfaces

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On 10/05/2007 02:20 PM, Pete Holsberg wrote:
> 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.
> 

Cool! What do you get now when you:

$ sudo hwinfo --framebuffer