On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Jack Lauman <jlauman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a Compaq Presario 2500 (Model No: 2525US) > > When booting into run level 3 (command line) on Fedora 9 the video occupies > less than 2/3 of the total screen. Using startx to launch xwindows works > fine and uses the full screen. > > Is there a way to control the screen size in run level 3? > > Thanks, > > Jack Default runlevel 3 console screen is 80x25 characters. If you have lines of text 132 characters wide then you are at the maximum supported, 132x40 characters. Here is a table of values courtesy of LinuxQuestions.org, http://www.linuxquestions.org/blog/archtoad6-147095/2007/12/29/vga-resolution-codes-for-grub-and-lilo-830/ VGA Resolution Codes for GRUB & Lilo --- Depth -- Colors bits 640x480 800×600 1024×768 1152×864 1280×1024 1600×1200 256 8 vga=769 vga=771 vga=773 vga=353 vga=775 vga=796 32000 ? vga=784 vga=787 vga=790 vga= ? vga=793 vga= ? 65000 16 vga=785 vga=788 vga=791 vga=355 vga=794 vga=798 16.7M 24 vga=786 vga=789 vga=792 vga=795 vga=799 Try appending one of the settings ("vga=value") to kernel line in grub to optimize viewing the screen. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
