Hi, Gary: The best advice I can offer will require some sighted assistance. 1.) Put 'vga=ask' in your grub.conf and reboot. 2.) Shortly after linux starts there'll be a screen of available resolutions. You want to do a Scroll-Lock at that point so you can have the time you need to have your sighted helper read the available modes andhex settings to you. #.) After you've written your choice down, finish the boot, adjust your grub.conf accordingly, and reboot once again. This should do it. Actually, I have no experience of grub2, but don't expect grub is actually involved in setting the resolution you need in Linux consoles. hth Janina Garry Turkington writes: > Hi all, > > Firstly, apologies if this is a duplicate, interesting mail issues at > this end... > > I've returned to Speakup after a while and am enjoying proper Linux console > access once again. > > One thing is frustrating me and I suspect it's been addressed before though > a search of prior postings didn't give me the magic I wanted. > > In the old Grub days I had a vga=0x317 setting in my menu.lst to give a very > wide and tall console screen, something like 140 columns and 40+ rows, which > made life much better. The migration to Grub2 has given different settings > and I can't find a reliable way of getting such an effect now. > > I've set things like gfxpayload=keep after setting the higher resolution in > the config files but this seems to give me the same old 80x25 vconsole size. > Is there some magic I'm missing? Using Debian 5 if it makes a difference. > > Thanks, > garry > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net Chair, Open Accessibility janina at a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org Chair, Protocols & Formats Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/wai/pf World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
