<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Harry Putnam <<a href="mailto:reader@newsguy.com">reader@newsguy.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> How does one control the resolution shown in text/console mode? I have a monitor that seems to have no means to adjust the viewable area. An older samsung LCD. the settings menu appears not to offer any means to make viewing size adjustments like my old crts did. </blockquote><div> Have you looked here: <a href="http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/learningresources/monitor/magetune/pop_usermanual_lcd.html">http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/learningresources/monitor/magetune/pop_usermanual_lcd.html</a> Also what is the model number? </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> The default text/console resolution means the first 3 characters on any line are off the viewable area and when the console becomes full, moving the prompt to the bottom, half the prompt line is below the visible area. I see no way to adjust it on the hardware so how can I adjust it with OS tools? Perhaps some edit to grub.cfg or can it be done dynamically once the OS is running? The stuff I've googled up with stings like: `ubuntu set resolution console' Turns up plenty of tips but they all revolve around grub, not grub2 which is the default on 11.4. Its not at all clear how to translate those kind of things to grub </blockquote></div> -- <a href="http://linuxcounter.net/cert/544489.png" target="_blank"></a>Accidental deaths by firearms account for less than 1% of the 30,000. There are three times as many medical mistake deaths in the US than there are accidental gun deaths. Perhaps we need safety locks on doctors and nurses? <a href="http://linuxcounter.net/cert/544489.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://linuxcounter.net/cert/544489.png"></a>