Antonio Paiva <arp2...@gmail.com> writes: >>> 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? > > I did try "vga=ask" but that option is no longer supported by the > debian kernel.
Is new kernel essential? For example, I am using Debian Jessie with a kernel 3.2 from Wheezy release because of some driver problems. If this is not a variant for you, I guess you should dig into framebuffer info.
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