Re: console resolution
Jeffrey Cao <jcao.linux@gmail.com>:
> On 2010-01-22, Nima Azarbayjany <i.adore.debian@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
Isn't it strange that we now need to `update-grub`, when having to run
"lilo" was such a hardship before?
That does it. I'm going back to lilo.
Grumble, mumble, wtf doesn't OpenBSD ever show up in the grub* boot
menu, grumble, mumble, ... Grr.
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