Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >> What is the simplest way to get a higher resolution screen when >> booting gentoo into console mode? >> >> I used to have something in /boot/grub/grub.conf that did that but I >> have forgotten the full syntax. My best guess is: >> [...] vga=0x31a video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap >> on kernel line. >> >> With that in place, at bootup the terminal expands to a (quite a lot) >> bigger size, but it's only momentary and then right back down to what >> is I guess default.
[...] > See if you have /etc/init.d/consolefont running at startup, it may be > changing your font from the one you see initially. No, it doesn't appear at all in rc-update output. What I actually see happen as boot starts is the vbox window expands quickly to about 3-4 times its original size, then after only a moment it drops back to its original size. Like a resolution is tried and dropped.
