On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 21:05:11 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:

> > 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.  
> 
> What does vga=794 get you?
> 
> I've used `vga=0x31b video=vesfb:mtrr:3,ywrap' with grub:0 a few yrs
> and get a nice size (1280x1024x32 [I think])

vga=794 gets you the same but in 16 bit, I find 65000 colours is enough
for bash :-) 0x31b is 795, but I tend to remember those codes in decimal,
however much it hurts my geek cred.


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Neil Bothwick

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