On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Jack Lauman <jlauman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I have a Compaq Presario 2500 (Model No: 2525US) >> >> When booting into run level 3 (command line) on Fedora 9 the video occupies >> less than 2/3 of the total screen. Using startx to launch xwindows works >> fine and uses the full screen. >> >> Is there a way to control the screen size in run level 3? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jack > > Default runlevel 3 console screen is 80x25 characters. If you have > lines of text 132 characters wide then you are at the maximum > supported, 132x40 characters. > > Here is a table of values courtesy of LinuxQuestions.org, > http://www.linuxquestions.org/blog/archtoad6-147095/2007/12/29/vga-resolution-codes-for-grub-and-lilo-830/ > > VGA Resolution Codes for GRUB & Lilo > --- Depth -- > Colors bits 640x480 800×600 1024×768 1152×864 1280×1024 1600×1200 > 256 8 vga=769 vga=771 vga=773 vga=353 vga=775 vga=796 > 32000 ? vga=784 vga=787 vga=790 vga= ? vga=793 vga= ? > 65000 16 vga=785 vga=788 vga=791 vga=355 vga=794 vga=798 > 16.7M 24 vga=786 vga=789 vga=792 vga=795 vga=799 > > Try appending one of the settings ("vga=value") to kernel line in grub > to optimize viewing the screen. Another option is to have the kernel tell you what modes your chipset and display support. When you get to GRUB edit your kernel line and append "vga=ask" to it. When you reboot it will give you a list of supported modes. You can type in the 3 digit number to try a mode or type SCAN to see if it can detect additional modes. Once you find one you like, change the "ask" portion to the number of the mode but be sure to put "0x" in front of it. For example, on my desktop I use 1024x768 and I believe that's 318 so I would append "vga=0x318" to the kernel line in grub. Richard -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
