On Fri,22.Jan.10, 15:38:55, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > Hi, > > I have recently installed Squeeze on my laptop and most things seem > to work fine right now. > > I used to add vga=xxx to the kernel parameters line to adjust the > console resolution but this is now deprecated as a message printed > at the startup says. What should be passed to the kernel instead > of, for example, vga=0x361? Let me add that I have upgraded the > kernel to 2.6.32 from sid.
Latest grub in sid now sets "gfxpayload=keep". This means that whatever (valid) resolution you set in /etc/default/grub with the GRUB_GFXMODE parameter it will be kept also for the linux console. You can expect it to arrive in testing in about 9 days http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=grub-pc Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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