On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Have you tried: >> >> vga=ask >> >> It'll give you a list of hopefully supported resolutions. > > Yes but those are not really resolutions are they?... I thought they > were actual font size changes. > > 5 is closest but any of the smaller ones look too silly and > unreadable. Whereas a hefty resolution like 1200 over 1024 looks > nice, just smaller. > > I moved away, yrs ago from using vga=ask because it really does not > have a satisfactory view setting. 5 is best, but also seem a bit > large, the next one looks too crowded and ugly.
I use uvesafb. It's a little awkward to set up the first time, but was more flexible for me as far as the possible resolutions. Instructions are here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ The relevant part of my grub kernel line: video=uvesafb:1280x800-32,mtrr:2,ywrap That goes into a 1280x800 video mode. I then use consolefont in my default runlevel to set the font to one that I prefer (ter-112n from media-fonts/terminus-font)
