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#1 2009-06-05 02:56:29

nonis
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Registered: 2009-05-20
Posts: 43

1920x1080 in tty

I just bought a new widescreen monitor and it runs natively at 1920x1080. It scales every other resolution. I have X running in the native res, but outside of x (I don't know the name for this... the ttys, black screen with white text, etc...) it is like 800x600 or some default stretched, and it doesnt even fit on the screen for some reason. How can I have my arch linux in 1920x1080?

I've read up a little bit and it seems that you can add a vga=### after the kernel in grub, but that does not seem to support widescreen resolutions at all. Am I wrong?

Anyone here have a beautiful 1920x1080 of white text on a black background?

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#2 2009-06-05 06:41:01

Ashren
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From: Denmark
Registered: 2007-06-13
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#3 2009-06-05 09:14:55

VirtualRider
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Registered: 2008-08-20
Posts: 134

Re: 1920x1080 in tty

I've solved that by adding a wrong number in the kernel line (vga=999 or something like that).
A menu is coming up, detecting available video modes and should show you your desired mode (in hex).

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#4 2009-06-05 10:44:40

Teoulas
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From: Athens, Greece
Registered: 2009-03-21
Posts: 70

Re: 1920x1080 in tty

I use uvesafb/v86d. It just works with my nvidia card at home, whereas I have to enable KMS for it to work with my intel X3100 at work.

Look here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uvesafb

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