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tarun.hellknight

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From: India

Registered: 2010-11-30

Posts: 65

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Getting full resolution in text mode (init 3 level)

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 )

Dogmeat

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From: Slovak Republic

Registered: 2009-02-24

Posts: 193

Re: Getting full resolution in text mode (init 3 level)

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.

tarun.hellknight

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From: India

Registered: 2010-11-30

Posts: 65

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Re: Getting full resolution in text mode (init 3 level)

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..

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Getting full resolution in text mode (init 3 level)

You can try the various framebuffer resolution settings like 'vga=775'.

tarvid

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Registered: 2010-12-10

Posts: 2

Re: Getting full resolution in text mode (init 3 level)

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.