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#1 2010-08-08 09:35:55

hkproj
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Increase screen resolution in terminal (no X Server)

Hi
When you start ArchLinux, you enter in 'terminal mode' (how do you call it?), where you are asked username and password, then you usually type 'startx' to launch your DE.
Yesterday, I was installing NVidia drivers and for some reasons, the screen resolution increased also in terminal.... So I was able to see a lot more text in a single screen... but when I reinstalled Xorg and NVidia drivers, I lost everything...
How can I re-enable it?

Thank you.

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#2 2010-08-08 09:40:47

loafer
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Re: Increase screen resolution in terminal (no X Server)

Take a look at /boot/grub/menu.lst

You can change the framebuffer resolution by appending "vga=nnn" to the kernel parameters.


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#3 2010-08-08 09:59:17

hkproj
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Re: Increase screen resolution in terminal (no X Server)

Thank you. I also found this article on the WIki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRU … resolution

Why I can't set higher resolutions, as in Xfce? because, using lrmi, the highest resolution I get is 1024x768....

[capo@capo-linux hwinfo]$ sudo vbetest
VBE Version 3.0
NVIDIA
[256] 640x400 (256 color palette)
[257] 640x480 (256 color palette)
[259] 800x600 (256 color palette)
[261] 1024x768 (256 color palette)
[270] 320x200 (5:6:5)
[271] 320x200 (8:8:8)
[273] 640x480 (5:6:5)
[274] 640x480 (8:8:8)
[276] 800x600 (5:6:5)
[277] 800x600 (8:8:8)
[279] 1024x768 (5:6:5)
[280] 1024x768 (8:8:8)
[304] 320x200 (256 color palette)
[305] 320x400 (256 color palette)
[306] 320x400 (5:6:5)
[307] 320x400 (8:8:8)
[308] 320x240 (256 color palette)
[309] 320x240 (5:6:5)
[310] 320x240 (8:8:8)
[317] 640x400 (5:6:5)
[318] 640x400 (8:8:8)
Type a mode number, or 'q' to quit - q

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#4 2010-08-08 10:10:30

mikesd
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Re: Increase screen resolution in terminal (no X Server)

If you are using the nVidia binary driver you may want to check out uvesafb. I have just started using it and now have a native 1680x1050 framebuffer. 

If you are using the nouveau driver then I think you can use KMS. Once again check the wiki for details.

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#5 2010-08-08 12:31:48

karol
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Re: Increase screen resolution in terminal (no X Server)

mikesd wrote:

If you are using the nVidia binary driver you may want to check out uvesafb. I have just started using it and now have a native 1680x1050 framebuffer. 

If you are using the nouveau driver then I think you can use KMS. Once again check the wiki for details.

+1
nvidia drivers don't work with KMS, and it was KMS that did the trick - gave you native resolution.

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