On Mon 14 Nov 2011 at 21:48:05 -0500, Dan B. wrote: > When I boot with my monitor connected (through a KVM), I end up with > high-resolution virtual consoles (67 rows by 240 columns). > > However, when I boot with the KVM switched away, then since the > kernel/etc. can't auto-detect my monitor, I get lower resolutions > (48 rows by 128 columns, or 25 by 80 once).
Have you got that the right way round? My experience is that with a KVM the monitor's EDID may not get passed to the computer. > Of course, I'd like to force it to use the higher resolution regardless > of which computer my KVM is switched to when this computer boots. Something like video=DVI-1:1280x1024 as a kernel parameter (when KMS is used) works for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111115091601.GL2852@desktop