Hello,
I recently just installed Gentoo and have it up and running. I don't have my X window manager working yet so I'm working in the Gentoo Window manager, and serfing the web with Links. My problem is the resoultion of the Gentoo Console is so low (like 800x600 or lower) I can't read anything, and it's giving me a headache trying to serf with links.

Anyway, what config file do I edit to change the console resoultion? I'm trying to get 1280x1024 res.

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I'm using Lilo as my bootloader
And did a stage 1 install
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Thanks,
Jay

I didn't mean Gentoo window manager, I just mean the Gentoo console screen

Sorry I dunno how to edit posts in Links

Just curious if you figured it out?

You can change the gentoo splash screen to use framebuffer which will make things look much better. You could also edit the fonts if you'd like. The defacto applicaition used to be bootsplash but the gentoo developers have moved away from the Suse made bootsplash app in favor of their own gensplash application.

What kernel sources are you using exactly?

With the gentoo-dev-sources kernel you can configure in the kernel configuration what resolution you want.Alternatively change the line 'vga=791' (or other value) to 'vga=ask' in your lilo.conf file.It should show you a list of possible reolutions then when you boot.

I did the development-sorces (vanillia 2.6 kernel). And here are the vaules you were speaking of: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo...k_part1_chap10

Inside my lilo.conf file i have the value 'vga=794' and nothing happend. I'll change that value to 'vga=ask' and ill report what happens when i get home.

Can you have 1600x1200 support with Gentoo? That is what my laptop can support (and I use it at) but from that URL in the last post it looks like using 'framebuffer' (not sure what that is) you can't get that high... What is that all about?

In the kernel configuration you go to Device Drivers -> Graphics support and enable VESA VGA graphics support.Then you can change the 'Vesa default mode' to what suits you (dunno if that will burn your monitor if you put some insane values there or just fail).
Worked fine for me with 1280x1024@60.
The lilo thing only worked for me with 'ask'.Just changing the value never did it for me for some reason.

1600x1200??? - depends on your laptop and the graphics chip.There are all kind of funny little problems with laptop graphics but those have nothing to do with any specific distro and I suppose you are talking about the x-server not the framebuffer.

You can use this guide to setup bootsplash:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Framebu...ash:Grubsplash