On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 16:45 -0400, John Hinton wrote:

Hmm.. after all these years I actually have a monitor on my desk beside me going through a couple of KVMs to our racks. So, I hope to make more use of direct console connections instead of shelling in.

But, now.... the text has always been huge and the interface clunky. And after a bit of googling around, and file searching on the system, I can't seem to find where or if there is a way to change the default console display settings. I sure would be nice to go to a higher resolution so to speak.

Can anybody point me in the right direction on where to look?

From rom vague long-ago memories... Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) and/or framebuffer? IIRC, it'll be need a kernel config, so you might need to look at the source or look at some of the add on repositories. I *think* I actually did that in a long-ago LFS implementation. Was neat. But the feature needs to be turned on in the kernel, IIRC? And then a config and boot setup.

A quick google for "framebuffer kernel source vga" returns some entries that make me think it's still available.shows lots of entries. Maybe your answer is there?

Note, these systems are all server installs.. no stinkin' GUIs. ;)

Thanks, John Hinton

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HTH