On Sat, 2011-08-27 at 23:24 -0400, Nick Sklav wrote: > On Sat, 2011-08-27 at 15:54 -0700, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > > Is there a User Forum? question 1. > > With X11, when I switch to virtual terminal ctl-alt-f2...f7), the > > terminal text, instead of being 1600x2000 > > appears as 800x600. I looked at X11 and am at a loss as to what > > Options to set, and where. > > Man xorg.conf was not too helpful. Arch Linux had a discussion > > about X, and I still have some problems if I follow through with their > > recommendations. > > > > I use virtual terminal for command line operations. > > > > Question 2. What can I do for increasing the terminal width and > > reduce the font size.? > > > I had the same issue in my case to solve it on my nvidia card i used the > grug kernel option vga=0x369 btw that is 1680x1050 16 bit, to find out > the max your card can do. use the vbeinfo command at the grub prompt to > get the value your card supports and all issues should be resolved. btw > this same issue plagued me every time i used the nvidia binary driver > not an issue with nouveau drive since the modeset option handles this. > > > Hope that helps.
Sorry correction on my last statement. vbeinfo seems to be arch specific the more common command seems to be. hwinfo --framebuffer so to help out here are some option you can try for your card. vga= Mode 0x0345: 1600x1200 (+1600), 8 bits = vga=0x345 Mode 0x0346: 1600x1200 (+3200), 16 bits = vga=0x346 Mode 0x034a: 1600x1200 (+6400), 24 bits = vga=0x34a example of my kernel line using nvidia driver but the vga= option works for any driver. nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau vga=0x369 detailed example of the actual grub section obviously do not just copy and paste as somethings will be different. title Scientific Linux (2.6.32-131.12.1.el6.x86_64) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-131.12.1.el6.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_phoenix-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_phoenix/lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_phoenix/lv_swap rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau vga=0x369 crashkernel=auto initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-131.12.1.el6.x86_64.img _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
