Re: console resolution

[Jeffrey Cao <jcao.linux@gmail.com>]

On 2010-01-22, Nima Azarbayjany <i.adore.debian@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have recently installed Squeeze on my laptop and most things seem to 
> work fine right now.
>
> I used to add vga=xxx to the kernel parameters line to adjust the 
> console resolution but this is now deprecated as a message printed at 
> the startup says.  What should be passed to the kernel instead of, for 
> example, vga=0x361?  Let me add that I have upgraded the kernel to 
> 2.6.32 from sid.
>
For the new grub, edit the file /etc/default/grub, add the following line:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=xxx"

And then run 'update-grub' to update /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Jeffrey