Re: Re: Re: console resolution

2010-02-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 09:17:51PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,24.Jan.10, 14:22:22, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: I was able to achieve the desired resolution of 1280x800 (equivalent to, I think, 0x361) by manually editing grub.cfg but the grub menu does not show correctly. It only fills

Re: Re: Re: console resolution

2010-02-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 01:50:23AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: Looks like a bug in /usr/share/doc/grub2-splashimages/README where it says to run update-grub, that should be update-grub2. Arrrgh ... I see that: fischer:~# less /usr/sbin/update-grub2 #!/bin/sh -e exec update-grub Sorry about

Re: Re: Re: console resolution

2010-01-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,24.Jan.10, 14:22:22, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: I was able to achieve the desired resolution of 1280x800 (equivalent to, I think, 0x361) by manually editing grub.cfg but the grub menu does not show correctly. It only fills the left top quarter of the screen and parts of it cannot be seen.

Re: Re: Re: console resolution

2010-01-24 Thread Nima Azarbayjany
I was able to achieve the desired resolution of 1280x800 (equivalent to, I think, 0x361) by manually editing grub.cfg but the grub menu does not show correctly. It only fills the left top quarter of the screen and parts of it cannot be seen. The rest was fine (the boot up of linux I mean)

Re: Re: Re: console resolution

2010-01-24 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 05:52:22AM EST, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: I was able to achieve the desired resolution of 1280x800 (equivalent to, I think, 0x361) by manually editing grub.cfg but the grub menu does not show correctly. It only fills the left top quarter of the screen and parts of it

Re: Re: console resolution

2010-01-23 Thread Nima Azarbayjany
It's weird but it's not working for me. Somehow update-grub (as well as update-grub2, in case they are different) ignore all modifications to /etc/default/grub. I'm giving up. Should I report a bug? Hi, I use a slightly different way, I put: GRUB_GFXMODE=1440x900 640x480 in

Re: Re: console resolution

2010-01-23 Thread Tom H
It's weird but it's not working for me.  Somehow update-grub (as well as update-grub2, in case they are different) ignore all modifications to /etc/default/grub.  I'm giving up.  Should I report a bug? Are you making all the changes that have been suggested? In short: In /etc/default/grub

Re: Re: console resolution

2010-01-22 Thread Nima Azarbayjany
set gfxpayload=keep will tell Grub2 to hand off the graphics settings to the kernel, which if configured properly will carry them forward. There are some other settings to tweak as well, insmod vbe and whatnot in the appropriate file, but that's about the gist of it. The nice thing is it