TEXT-MODE resolution

[peter_k]

Hi,

My laptop is sony vaio vgn-fs 115b

i've used 915resolution and now i can use 1280x800 in kde.

But i have another problem...
I'm working very often in text mode resolution (something like full screen dos mode in windows). But in this mode <50% of screen is used! (i have big black empty frames around!) Do you know how can i fix this? Of course if you understand the question, because my english is not so good...

Greets+Thanks,
Peter_K

[aysiu]

Re: TEXT-MODE resolution

You probably have an entry somewhere in your /boot/grub/menu.lst that looks something like this:

title		Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-10-386 
root		(hd0,0)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-10-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-10-386
savedefault
boot

Try:

sudo cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.lst_backup
kdesu kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst

Tack on vga=791 in the kernel line. So if the previous example were your entry, it'd now look like:

title		Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-10-386 
root		(hd0,0)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-10-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash vga=791
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-10-386
savedefault
boot

[peter_k]

Re: TEXT-MODE resolution

It works now !!

Thanks a lot