On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:20:25 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > What can you tell me about how to get an initial hi-res frame buffer > during boot and after when in console mode?
KMS takes care of that with real hardware, but not so much with virtual hardware. > I know how to do it in grub:0. But I see my first feeble attempt in > grub:2 was total non-starter. You're supposed to use a video= parameter but I find the old school vga=794 works for me. The thing you have to learn with using GRUB, or at least when using grub-mkconfig, is that you don't edit grub.cfg but /etc/default/grub when you want to add kernel parameters. -- Neil Bothwick Employ teenagers - while they know everything.
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