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Re: console screen size



Alan Ianson wrote:
> On this particular machine I am working on I get a text screen size of
> 80x25.  I'd like to change it to 80x30, or perhaps I need a 640x480
> frame buffer. Is  there a way I can change that from the command line,
> or in grub's menu.list maybe?

Yes, with the 'vga=' option in grub's menu.lst.
These are some of the url's that provide some clarity:

    http://www.colug.net/pipermail/colug432/2005-October/001613.html
    http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/grub-images/configs/linux/menu.lst

'vga=ask' seems to provide a list of choices. Never tried it myself
though.



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