Setting console VGA mode

[Liam Proven]

2009/7/18 Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com>:
> 2009/7/18 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
>> 2009/7/17 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
>>> display is 80x60. I set this by adding
>>>
>>> vga=6
>>>
>>> to the end of my kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst
>>>
>>> I also removed the "quiet" and "splash" parameters.
>>>
>>> However, although this works, it is reset back to 80x25 as soon as init starts.
>
> I just flipped mine to vga=6 and then to vga=791 (was at 80x25)

vga=6 works fine for me, but I don't think I can use the higher-res
modes like vga=791, as this is a VGA display. Its maximum resolution
is 640x480 @ 60Hz, in 256 shades of grey.

I use vga=7xx parameters on my desktop and laptop - this flips the
actual screen res into a higher mode than VGA's default 640x400 (I
think that's right) text mode, and init is happy with that and just
resets the font on the higher-res screen. VGA=6 or less resets the VGA
text mode to more rows (and, optionally, fewer columns) and init does
not like that and promptly resets it.

> I think the missing step for you is runng 'sudo update-grub' after you
> made your changes, so that the initrd.img is regenerated.
>
> Ignore my earlier comment about console-setup.

OK, I'll try that too.

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