On Friday 25 March 2005 11:26 am, Ken Schneider wrote:
Setting "vga=normal" for grub is the fallback and it works for me, but it displays the text at the lowest resolution. For a text console I'd like
to
do better if it's possible, since then I can see more lines on the screen.
Then change it to your liking and run mk_initrd to set it in the initrd at boot.
So far I haven't found a vga value that (a) doesn't drive the monitor out of range and (b) gives me the smaller text size I want. Fortunately the monitor protects itself from sync values it doesn't like. By the way, it doesn't seem necessary to run mk_initrd to put the changes into effect on the next boot. I've tried just editing /boot/grub/menu.lst and rebooting, and my changes do have an effect (though not necessarily a favorable one). Paul