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

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