Re: Squeeze. How to set video res to 1366x768 in pure console?
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:01 AM, Phil Requirements
<simultaneous@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 2011-01-09 23:28:58 +0000, Phil Requirements wrote:
>> On 2011-01-09 23:11:29 +0300, Mark Goldshtein wrote:
>> > As an experiment, from googling, I have added this:
>> >
>> > GRUB_GFXMODE=1366x768x32
>> > GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1366x768x32
>> >
>> > to /etc/default/grub, when # update-grub2 and rebooted.
>> > Strange effect was achieved, I have seen 1366x768 at the grub's
>> > initial boot moment, where counter counts from 5 seconds to zero and
>> > then console switched back to 640x480. These bright 5 seconds were
>> > enjoyable, though...
>> >
>> > Grub restored to the original state and I continue googling.
>> >
>> > I just wonder, if there a standard tool with 'howto' how to change a
>> > console resolution in Debian? Or, wiki instructions maybe?
>>
>> Mark,
>>
>> You are almost there! You got a good-looking conosole, and
>> then it went bad again. I've seen that before.
>
> Sorry to reply to my own self. I mis-pasted in the previous
> message. I meant:
>
> Change this:
>
> GRUB_GFXMODE=1366x768x32
> GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1366x768x32
>
> To this:
>
> GRUB_GFXMODE=1366x768x32
> GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep
>
Sorry for delaying and thanks a lot for the help!
No success story yet, tried 32-bit colour and 16, 8, nothing - console
output during boot went well, but Ctrl+Alt+F1...6 shows text partially
on both sides of the screen. It is split to margins of a screen sides.
Current /etc/default/grub is here:
# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=1366x768"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"
# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console
# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
GRUB_GFXMODE=1366x768
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep
# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_RECOVERY="true"
# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"
One thing to mention, I am running # update-grub2 instead of
update-grub. Is it wrong? AFAIR I have installed GRUB2 during Squeeze
installation process.
--
Sincerely Yours'
Mark Goldshtein
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