On Tue, 7 Jul 2015, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 10:52:55AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 7/7/2015 6:45 AM, kqt4at5v at gmail.com wrote: >>> where can i find the fbset package for centos 6 >> >> as far as I can tell, fbset hasn't been updated since the 90s, its a piece >> of history, I doubt it has any place in a modern X system. > > That might be true, but I see its still packaged and available in > Fedora. Its possible that it is completely nonfunctional, it looks > like it has just been rebuilt without changes since 2009. > > The latest fedora srpm for rawhide builds as an el6 package, so I > suspect it's not changing that much. > > I don't see anything on Red Hat's site mentioning it was removed. > > However, it looks like 'busybox' has a fbset command. Does running > 'busybox fbset' work for you? > Yes it does but has no affect on changing the console resolution Debian has fbset package and allows me to change console resolution Maybe RHEL/CentOS has not caught up Debian 8 is a bit newer