GRUB Graphic to Console

2016-05-24 Thread ray
I would like to control the graphic resolution on a minimally installed stretch to help make the console easier to read. This is a Toshiba 4K display on a laptop. Stretch is a EFI boot on a 400 GB SSD. This is what I tried and found to work partially: GRUB_GFXMODE=1920x1440 GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_

Re: GRUB Graphic to Console

2016-05-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-05-24 10:54 -0700, ray wrote: > I would like to control the graphic resolution on a minimally > installed stretch to help make the console easier to read. > > This is a Toshiba 4K display on a laptop. Stretch is a EFI boot on a 400 GB > SSD. Nice machine. > This is what I tried and f

Re: GRUB Graphic to Console

2016-05-24 Thread ray
On Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 2:20:04 PM UTC-5, Sven Joachim wrote: > Only until a kernel graphics driver is loaded, those by default use the > resolution which is preferred by the monitor for the console. Sven, Thank you for your response. hwinfo report the Intel graphic driver i915 is active.

Re: GRUB Graphic to Console

2016-05-25 Thread ray
On Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 9:20:04 PM UTC-5, ray wrote: > On Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 2:20:04 PM UTC-5, Sven Joachim wrote: > > This will be my next step. > > Thanks again, > I could not get this to work. I probably have something wrong in /etc/default/grub: GRUB_DEFAULT=0 GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 GRUB