On 09/11/2012 02:21 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: > I have been given a replacement monitor for my CentOS-6.3 KVM test > platform. It is an LG E2251 22in letterbox format screen whereas the > unit it replaces was a 17" standard format display. The console > messages now look as through they were output on Silly Putty. > > The display itself displays a message to set the resolution to 1920 x > 1080. I have found references to using the vga option in the > grub.conf file. However, I can find no comprehensive list of what > value to use. The references I have found actually say "see the > source code in the Linux kernel tree", which does not strike me as > particularly "user friendly" shall we say. > > How do I do this or am I condemned to rubber band output. Are you talking about a CLI display boot resolution or a GUI display setting in X? If CLI, use this table: http://wiki.antlinux.com/pmwiki.php?n=HowTos.VgaModes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20120911/b3ca4ad7/attachment-0005.sig>