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Re: Setting the screen resolution in grub2

On 23/02/11 13:52, Rob van der Putten wrote:

Hi there


How do I set the screen resolution to 640x480?
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=769" in /etc/default/grub doesn't work.
There is lots of stuff on the web on how to do this, but I couldn't find
anything /etc/default/grub specific.



Setting:

GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep
in /etc/grub/default, and running update-grub, should set your boot scree mode and kernel screen mode to 640x480. It will be a frame buffer mode, not text only (which I would prefer on some of my older systems).
Are use using a standard kernel or a customised one? If it's custom you may need to build in VESA frame buffer support (this is something I haven't looked into yet, but will). 

Dom
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