I'd be happy with the 80x25 characters if it would actually fill the
screen. I have 3 Compag laptops this is the newwst and the only one that
behaves this way.
For some reason the screen doesn't fill up it ends up centered and uses
only about 1/3 of the available screen area.
I'm not sure what's causing it.
Thanks,
Jack
Richard Shaw wrote:
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
Another option is to have the kernel tell you what modes your chipset
and display support. When you get to GRUB edit your kernel line and
append "vga=ask" to it. When you reboot it will give you a list of
supported modes. You can type in the 3 digit number to try a mode or
type SCAN to see if it can detect additional modes. Once you find one
you like, change the "ask" portion to the number of the mode but be
sure to put "0x" in front of it.
For example, on my desktop I use 1024x768 and I believe that's 318 so
I would append "vga=0x318" to the kernel line in grub.
Richard
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