On 2010-01-22 at 08:26:27 -0500, Jeffrey Cao wrote: > On 2010-01-22, Nima Azarbayjany <i.adore.deb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have recently installed Squeeze on my laptop and most things seem to > > work fine right now. > > > > I used to add vga=xxx to the kernel parameters line to adjust the > > console resolution but this is now deprecated as a message printed at > > the startup says. What should be passed to the kernel instead of, for > > example, vga=0x361? Let me add that I have upgraded the kernel to > > 2.6.32 from sid. > > For the new grub, edit the file /etc/default/grub, add the following line: > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=xxx" > > And then run 'update-grub' to update /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Thanks, Jeffrey. I routinely use the "vga" option too, and I couldn't get it to work with grub2 either. To avoid confusion between grub2 and grub1, I decided to go back to lilo. The next time I do a Squeeze install from scratch, I'll your suggestion a try. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
