Thank you Dmitrii. I did try "vga=ask" but that option is no longer supported by the debian kernel. On the grub console, I also tried vbeinfo and couldn't find the 1024x480 mode. And vbetest only worked with 640x480.
Antonio From: Dmitrii Kashin Sent: 10/10/2013 3:25 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Set widescreen resolution in console Antonio Paiva <alpharomeop...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi everyone, > > I have recently acquired an old Sony Vaio PCG-C1VN (aka, a "PictureBook") > and installed Debian wheezy. The problem is that I can only get the > *console* to run at 640x480 resolution. First of all, have you tried to boot your kernel with vga=ask option?
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