On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Kam Leo <kam.leo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
In case decimal does not work the following hexadecimal values are
courtesy of OpenSUSE,
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Setting_up_Unsupported_Graphics_Cards_with_the...
:
Mode 0x0300: 640x400 (+640), 8 bits
Mode 0x0301: 640x480 (+640), 8 bits
Mode 0x0303: 800x600 (+800), 8 bits
Mode 0x0305: 1024x768 (+1024), 8 bits
Mode 0x0307: 1280x1024 (+1280), 8 bits
Mode 0x030e: 320x200 (+640), 16 bits
Mode 0x030f: 320x200 (+1280), 24 bits
Mode 0x0311: 640x480 (+1280), 16 bits
Mode 0x0312: 640x480 (+2560), 24 bits
Mode 0x0314: 800x600 (+1600), 16 bits
Mode 0x0315: 800x600 (+3200), 24 bits
Mode 0x0317: 1024x768 (+2048), 16 bits
Mode 0x0318: 1024x768 (+4096), 24 bits
Mode 0x031a: 1280x1024 (+2560), 16 bits
Mode 0x0330: 320x200 (+320), 8 bits
Mode 0x0331: 320x400 (+320), 8 bits
Mode 0x0332: 320x400 (+640), 16 bits
Mode 0x0333: 320x400 (+1280), 24 bits
Mode 0x0334: 320x240 (+320), 8 bits
Mode 0x0335: 320x240 (+640), 16 bits
Mode 0x0336: 320x240 (+1280), 24 bits
Mode 0x033d: 640x400 (+1280), 16 bits
Mode 0x033e: 640x400 (+2560), 24 bits
Mode 0x0345: 1600x1200 (+1600), 8 bits
Mode 0x0346: 1600x1200 (+3200), 16 bits