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Introduction

In most GNU/Linux systems, you are provide with multiple TTYs or virtual consoles. Typically 6. These are accessed by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 through F6 with your XServer typically running on TTY7 or Ctrl+Alt+F7 and the console logging done to TTY8 or TTY12. (Ctrl+Alt+F8 or F12). The default resolution for these console screens is 80 columns by 25 rows. This default resolution is inconvenient for most activities done on the console. Thankfully, this is not a new problem and has been solved for a long time. The following instructions will provide you the necessary steps to increase the resolution of console screens through the use of the vga kernel option. Warning: Be careful to not chose a resolution that is higher than what your display device supports. Doing so, will require you to boot a rescue disk and adjust the vga mode to a supported value.

Increase the resolution of the virtual consoles

Chose preferred console resolution

The default size of the console is 25x80 chars using vga (640x480 pixels) for historical reasons. I order to utilize modern display resolution you will need to override this settings during the operation system boot process. Please note that widescreen format support is very limited in the VESA standards. Pick a appropriate value from the matrix below, e.g. 791 for 16 bit 1280x1024.

		320×200	640×400	640×480	800×500	800×600 896×672 1024×640	
16 colors 					770 				
256 colors 		768 	769 	879 	771 	815 	874 		
15-bit 		781 	801 	784 	880 	787 	816 	875 		
16-bit 		782 	802 	785 	881 	788 	817 	876 		
24-bit 		783 	803 	786 	882 	789 	818 	877 		
32-bit			804 	809 	883 	814 	819 	878 		


1024×768 	1152×720 	1280×1024 	1440×900 	1600×1200
772 				774
773 		869 		775 		864 		796
790 		870 		793 		865 		797
791 		871 		794 		866 		798
792 		872 		795 		867 		799
824 		873 		829 		868 		834

A more complete description and table can be found on the Wikipedia VESA BIOS Extension article.

Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Append vga=791 in the end of the kernel line. Your root=UUID will look different and do not edit this since it will cause your computer to fail booting. Please be warned. In the kernel line below the option splash is removed since it might cause LCD monitors to entering sleep mode during the boot process when using DVI input. This is not a serious error but a very annoying side-effect from changing the console resolution. This failure might apply on other configurations as well.

title		Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-9-generic
uuid		636dc411-e53a-4776-a9e9-4fc9e277f445
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-9-generic root=UUID=636dc411-e53a-4776-a9e9-4fc9e277f445 ro quiet splash vga=791
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-9-generic
quiet

• Tip, If you would like to test the setting but not make a permanent change as above it's possible to edit grub options during computer booting. When grub is loading press ESC to enter the boot menu, chose to edit the kernel line and append vga=791. Continue to boot linux.

Set usplash resolution

To keep the Ubuntu slash logo centered, you must set the resolution to match what you chose from the table.

sudo vi /etc/usplash.conf

Change xres= to the first 1/2 of the resolution and yres= to the second 1/2. e.g.

# Usplash configuration file
xres=1024
yres=768

Rebuild the kernel image

This step is necessary to rebuild the usplash graphics in the kernel image being used upon next reboot. This step might also be necessary to perform after a kernel upgrade.

sudo update-initramfs -u

Reboot

Hopefully you should see the boot messages with a smaller font upon the boot process.

Hints

If you are interested in seeing the supported modes of your video card, you can set the vga= line to ask and reboot. vga=ask Upon Grub loading, it will present you with a table of the supported modes of your video card. The format is X by Y by Color Depth in bits. The number to the left of the resolution is the VESA mode. You need to convert the code to Linux VGA modes. This is typically done by adding 512 to the VESA mode. This is not always the case and can be values greater or lower.

Links

This section was assembled using information from different sources.

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