Re: Setting the screen resolution in grub2

2011-02-25 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 02:30:12PM +, darkestkhan wrote: >> 2011/2/23 Rob van der Putten : > [..] >> > How do I set the screen resolution to 640x480? >> > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=769" in /etc/default/grub doesn't work. >> > There is lo

Re: Setting the screen resolution in grub2

2011-02-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 02:30:12PM +, darkestkhan wrote: > 2011/2/23 Rob van der Putten : [..] > > How do I set the screen resolution to 640x480? > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=769" in /etc/default/grub doesn't work. > > There is lots of stuff on the web on how to do this, but I couldn't find > >

Re: Setting the screen resolution in grub2

2011-02-23 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Brian wrote: I got carried away there. /etc/default/console-setup doesn't alter the screen resolution. It does set COLUMNS and LINES. Anyway. I solved the problem. It was a hardware and not a config problem; The motherboard has a onboard VGA and had a NVidia AG

Re: Setting the screen resolution in grub2

2011-02-23 Thread Brian
On Wed 23 Feb 2011 at 15:23:02 +, Brian wrote: > It can and it does. Your video card and the driver it uses have some > bearing on this, as does /etc/default/console-setup. I got carried away there. /etc/default/console-setup doesn't alter the screen resolution. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Setting the screen resolution in grub2

2011-02-23 Thread Brian
On Wed 23 Feb 2011 at 14:52:56 +0100, Rob van der Putten wrote: > How do I set the screen resolution to 640x480? > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=769" in /etc/default/grub doesn't work. > There is lots of stuff on the web on how to do this, but I couldn't find > anything /etc/default/grub specific. ht

Re: Setting the screen resolution in grub2

2011-02-23 Thread Brian
On Wed 23 Feb 2011 at 16:01:22 +0100, Rob van der Putten wrote: > As far as I can tell Grub2 tries to figure out largest resolution and > number of colours the hardware (video card) supports and then uses this > as its default. The default GRUB menu display screen is definitely 640x480. Are yo

Re: Setting the screen resolution in grub2

2011-02-23 Thread Dom
On 23/02/11 13:52, Rob van der Putten wrote: Hi there How do I set the screen resolution to 640x480? GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=769" in /etc/default/grub doesn't work. There is lots of stuff on the web on how to do this, but I couldn't find anything /etc/default/grub specific. Setting: GRUB_GF

Re: Setting the screen resolution in grub2

2011-02-23 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Tom H wrote: Isn't 640x480 the default? As far as I can tell Grub2 tries to figure out largest resolution and number of colours the hardware (video card) supports and then uses this as its default. The "/etc/default/grub" variables that control the resoluti

Re: Setting the screen resolution in grub2

2011-02-23 Thread darkestkhan
2011/2/23 Rob van der Putten : > Hi there > > > How do I set the screen resolution to 640x480? > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=769" in /etc/default/grub doesn't work. > There is lots of stuff on the web on how to do this, but I couldn't find > anything /etc/default/grub specific. > > TIA > > > Regards, >

Re: Setting the screen resolution in grub2

2011-02-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Rob van der Putten wrote: > > How do I set the screen resolution to 640x480? > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=769" in /etc/default/grub doesn't work. > There is lots of stuff on the web on how to do this, but I couldn't find > anything /etc/default/grub specific. Isn't 6

Setting the screen resolution in grub2

2011-02-23 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there How do I set the screen resolution to 640x480? GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=769" in /etc/default/grub doesn't work. There is lots of stuff on the web on how to do this, but I couldn't find anything /etc/default/grub specific. TIA Regards, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-re