Console High Resolution

Conrad Kreyling conrad at nerdland.org
Fri Jan 3 20:11:33 EST 2003


Yeah, merely to reiterate, this has nothing to do with your bootloader.
You probably shouldn't mess with it. ^_~

Con

* Robert Dege (rdege at cse.Buffalo.EDU) wrote:
> 
> It deals with FrameBuffer.  Here's a how-to with more depth on using it:
> 
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html
> 
> > Hi all,
> >  I use Redhat 8.0 and I would like to have the console in high
> > resolution like Slackware 8 has, and maybe even the little penguin.  I
> > know it has something to do with editing the grub.conf file.  I can't
> > find much info about this, only about editing the lilo.conf on google.
> > I know I need to add the line vga=794 to grub.conf but I don't know
> > where.  Can anyone help?  Anyone using Grub?  Can u post ur grub.conf
> > file?  Or can someone please send me
> > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt to shipdadip at adelphia.net.  I
> > don't have it.
> >
> 
> 
> 
> Dege
> 
> So Many Things in Life Would Be Really Funny
> .... If They Weren't Happening To Me
> 
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