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I recently switched from Fedora to Arch basically because its awesome and its a rolling release. I printed all the pages of documentation and everything went fine. But when I installed the NVIDIA drivers, I noticed that the resolution of my text mode came back to 1024x768 from 1920x1080. Everything is working fine in the GUI mode. Desktop effects are working too. But it would be great if I could get full resolution in the text mode too. Here's the output of my menu.lst file.
# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst
# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS
#
# Linux Grub
# -------------------------
# /dev/fd0 (fd0)
# /dev/sda (hd0)
# /dev/sdb2 (hd1,1)
# /dev/sda3 (hd0,2)
#
# FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
# +-------------------------------------------------+
# | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
# ----+--------------------------------------------
# 256 | 0x301=769 0x303=771 0x305=773 0x307=775
# 32K | 0x310=784 0x313=787 0x316=790 0x319=793
# 64K | 0x311=785 0x314=788 0x317=791 0x31A=794
# 16M | 0x312=786 0x315=789 0x318=792 0x31B=795
# +-------------------------------------------------+
# general configuration:
timeout 5
default 0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue
# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
#
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
#
#-*
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,6)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda9 ro
initrd /kernel26.img
# (1) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd0,6)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda9 ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img
# (2) Windows
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
Here's the configuration of my system :-
AMD Phenom II 720 BE @ 3 GHz
Biostar TA 790GX BE
4GB DDR2 Kingston RAM
1 TB Samsung HDD SATA II
Palit GeForce GTX 260 896 MB GDDR3 graphics card.
AOC F22 Full HD monitor
Arch Linux running in 64-bit mode (2.6.36-ARCH )
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The native resolution was caused by KMS with a nouveau module. Unfortunately it doesn't work with the proprietary nvidia module but you can try to set up Uvesafb.
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Damn that was a quick response.. but Uvesafb seems a little too hard for me. I think that I'm gonna stay with this res for a while..
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You can try the various framebuffer resolution settings like 'vga=775'.
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With a Sceptre X22WG, editing the boot stanza in grub. "e" to edit, down to kernel line, "e" to edit again, to "end of line" (e.g. ro), space video=1024x768@60, return, "b" for boot.
That gave me a useable full screen console. I then edited menu.lst in /boot/grub to change the "zeroth" boot stanza, and the change was permanent.
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