On Tue, 11 Sep 2012, James B. Byrne wrote:
> To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
> From: James B. Byrne <byrnejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: How to? Set boot up display resolution
>
> I have been given a replacement monitor for my CentOS-6.3 KVM test
> platform. It is an LG E2251 22in letterbox format screen whereas the
> unit it replaces was a 17" standard format display. The console
> messages now look as through they were output on Silly Putty.
>
> The display itself displays a message to set the resolution to 1920 x
> 1080. I have found references to using the vga option in the
> grub.conf file. However, I can find no comprehensive list of what
> value to use. The references I have found actually say "see the
> source code in the Linux kernel tree", which does not strike me as
> particularly "user friendly" shall we say.
>
> How do I do this or am I condemned to rubber band output.
This might be what you are looking for James:
http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/svga.txt
HTH
Keith
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