Re: console resolution

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

On 2010-01-22 at 08:26:27 -0500, Jeffrey Cao wrote:
> 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

Thanks, Jeffrey.  I routinely use the "vga" option too, and I couldn't get it
to work with grub2 either.  To avoid confusion between grub2 and grub1,
I decided to go back to lilo.  The next time I do a Squeeze install from
scratch, I'll your suggestion a try.