To try to answer the original question... How to change the console resolution. I find that the Arch Wiki has LOTS of great info relevant to more than just Arch. Caveat emptor: There are often subtle differences between distros. i.e. on Arch one uses grub-mkconfig and /boot/grub/grub.cfg on Fedora one uses grub2-mkconfig and /boot/grub2/grub.cfg. But tab completion and man pages are your friend for working out these minor differences.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB2#Visual_Configuration Long and short of it. 1. Edit /etc/default/grub and make sure the following are set the way you want and uncommented. GRUB_GFXMODE=800x600x16 GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep 2. Run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg -- OR -- if like in my case you have a finicky monitor (I assume not because its 1920x1200 or something...) You can switch to an entirely plain console. 1. Edit /etc/default/grub and comment out #GRUB_GFXMODE=800x600x16 #GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep 2. Add or uncomment: GRUB_TERMINAL=console 3. Run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg As for systemd. I was at first annoyed by the switch but as I get comfortable with it I really like what I see. IMO the problem w/ adoption has been the documentation. While thurough its not particularly...... practical I guess. Its very academic, like reading a text book; not so much like reading an owners manual. I learned a lot by looking into target and service definitions to really understand what was going on. Again I find the Arch Wiki and the previously linked Fedora Wiki to both be helpful https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd HTH -Alan On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Jared Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote: >> Guess with an increasing divergence here in the short term, that >> advice wouldn't be so useful anymore. >> >> Anyway I think I will give Fedora 18 a go on my main workstation and see >> if I can get comfortable with systemd. > > In the short term, yes, there's going to be some divergence. If you > followed the introduction of SELinux, it was a very similar situation. > Long-term, I think you'll see even conservative distributions like > RHEL move over to systemd. Because of the slower release cycle of > enterprise distributions, It just may take three or four (or even > more) Fedora releases before they catch up. And in the meantime, > Fedora keeps forging ahead (in many different directions). > > -- > Jared Smith > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
