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khouli

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Registered: 2014-12-14

Posts: 70

Increase resolution upon boot, before starting X

How do I get the same resolution at boot, before starting X, that I have in a terminal emulator inside of X? The resolution at boot once was higher but at some point it changed. I think this occurred after I installed video card drivers but I'm not certain.

Buddlespit

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From: Chesapeake, Va.

Registered: 2014-02-07

Posts: 507

Re: Increase resolution upon boot, before starting X

I had to get rid of my nvidia proprietary drivers and use nouveau/mesa drivers to get my console to look good. Downside is that I can't play any wine games with great graphics (moot point, I don't have g15 keyboard drivers and the gnome15 site is down). So you'll have to decide if good looking console fonts or gaming is your priority.

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Increase resolution upon boot, before starting X

You should tell us at least what drivers are you using. If it's nvidia, then Buddlespit is right. Alternatively try using https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uvesafb

Do you really need higher resolution or e.g. smaller font?

khouli

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Registered: 2014-12-14

Posts: 70

Re: Increase resolution upon boot, before starting X

I'm using nvidia drivers. I mostly want smaller font on the console. If there's a way to change the font that doesn't change the resolution I'd be fine with that.

So this might be a limitation of the nvidia driver itself? Weird.

Reading through uvesafb now...

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Increase resolution upon boot, before starting X

Read the wiki e.g. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nv … resolution and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … sole_fonts