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Bug#561008: console-setup: approximations for 'toilet -f future' symbols look different before and after X



On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 18:13:17 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:

> I am perfectly fine with having a framebuffer console, with the i915
> kernel module (since I want to get accelerated Intel graphics in X),
> and kernel mode setting.
> It's just that I would like to have a 640x480 framebuffer console, not
> a 1280x1024 one!
> 
> Are you saying that I cannot choose the screen resolution for a
> framebuffer console with KMS?!?
> This would look like a regression with respect to the old times of
> "traditional" console, where I could get a low resolution console and
> whatever higher resolution in X I liked...
> 
> Julien, could you please clarify?
> 
You can probably set a different resolution by playing with the video
kernel parameter.  video=640x480 might work.  Not sure of the point, but
hey.

Cheers,
Julien

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