How do you change the resolution for your text screen ?

lostboy · 03-21-2003, 12:37 PM

In KDE my resolution is at 1024x768 and h sync=68.6khz, v sync=84.9hz.
However on my text screen (IE <ctrl + F2> to a bash prompt), the resolution is 1024x768, but the h sync=48.3khz and h sync=59.9hz.

What I want the text screen to have is a 800x600 and h sync=68.6khz, v sync=84.9hz.

How do I accomplish this ? I have not been able to find any posts addressing this specific issue.

JC

Dave Skywatcher · 03-21-2003, 02:04 PM

You can modify LILO to boot Linux in different screen modes (not exactly the same as resolution), but I don't remember exactly how it's done. Has to do with modifying a line in lilo.conf.

A quick Google search turned this up -- it may be more helpful than what I know: http://www.talug.org/howto/console-mini-howto.html

lostboy · 03-21-2003, 02:33 PM

Thanks alot. That looks like what I'm looking for.

JC

lostboy · 03-21-2003, 08:17 PM

Once again, thanks. That did the trick, altough I had to take into account that I don't use LILO, I use grub. But it was no big deal. The config file that needs to be altered in the case of Grub is 'menu.lst' . For my distro (Suse 8.1) it was found in '/boot/grub/'.

I found where it said VGA=791 and I changed 791 to normal. I'm happy with that look, but you could also change it to VGA=ask and when you boot, it will show you your options as far as screen mode. Cool stuff.

JC