Re: Display Resolution Problem
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Jack Lauman <jlauman(a)nwcascades.com> wrote:
I have a Compaq Presario 2500 (Model No: 2525US)
When booting into run level 3 (command line) on Fedora 9 the video occupies
less than 2/3 of the total screen. Using startx to launch xwindows works
fine and uses the full screen.
Is there a way to control the screen size in run level 3?
Thanks,
Jack
Default runlevel 3 console screen is 80x25 characters. If you have
lines of text 132 characters wide then you are at the maximum
supported, 132x40 characters.
Here is a table of values courtesy of LinuxQuestions.org,
http://www.linuxquestions.org/blog/archtoad6-147095/2007/12/29/vga-resolu...
VGA Resolution Codes for GRUB & Lilo
--- Depth --
Colors bits 640x480 800×600 1024×768 1152×864 1280×1024 1600×1200
256 8 vga=769 vga=771 vga=773 vga=353 vga=775 vga=796
32000 ? vga=784 vga=787 vga=790 vga= ? vga=793 vga= ?
65000 16 vga=785 vga=788 vga=791 vga=355 vga=794 vga=798
16.7M 24 vga=786 vga=789 vga=792 vga=795 vga=799
Try appending one of the settings ("vga=value") to kernel line in grub
to optimize viewing the screen.