Re: Setting a console resolution

2018-01-19 Thread Laurence Parry
>> In addition, on the computer with the Matrox-adapter running >> something as simple as 'dmesg -T' is really really slow. It literally >> takes several seconds while the text scrolls on the screen. >> The thing is, I do not really care about fancy framebuffer resolution and >> graphics on the con

Re: Setting a console resolution

2017-12-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-12-28 16:53 +, Brian wrote: > On Thu 28 Dec 2017 at 17:12:47 +0100, henrik i wrote: > >> A small update. I did some more testing on the system with Intel 3600 >> graphics, and at least one working solution was to blacklist the module: >> >> In /etc/modprobe.d/whatever.conf >> blacklis

Re: Setting a console resolution

2017-12-28 Thread Brian
On Thu 28 Dec 2017 at 17:12:47 +0100, henrik i wrote: > A small update. I did some more testing on the system with Intel 3600 > graphics, and at least one working solution was to blacklist the module: > > In /etc/modprobe.d/whatever.conf > blacklist gma500_gfx > > This enabled me to use the foll

Re: Setting a console resolution

2017-12-28 Thread henrik i
A small update. I did some more testing on the system with Intel 3600 graphics, and at least one working solution was to blacklist the module: In /etc/modprobe.d/whatever.conf blacklist gma500_gfx This enabled me to use the following lines in /etc/default/grub GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768@60 GRUB_GFXPAY

Setting a console resolution

2017-12-28 Thread henrik i
Hi, I got two computers that usually run headless, but from time to time I might need to troubleshoot from the console. When I do this, I just connect a plain VGA cable to my 1920x1200 Dell monitor. Just upgraded to Stretch with kernel 4.9 and noticed that no matter what I do, the console resoluti