Comments on: nVIDIA 8800 on Debian

By: idebian

idebian — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:02:30 +0000

sadly not …
I agree it’s weird and annoying; if we fix this we could have a huge 1920×1200 console
I’ll let you know as soon I figured out what’s going on there.

Ciao

By: absintos

absintos — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:20:23 +0000

Ciao,

any success with the blank virtual console problem ?

It is really annoying me

By: idebian

idebian — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:03:57 +0000

Yes,
but remember that this is for GRUB2 only!

Ciao

By: Cassiano Leal

Cassiano Leal — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:50:52 +0000

even better put

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=vga=795 (or 791, or whatever)

in your /etc/default/grub. then,

$ sudo update-grub
$ sudo grub-install /dev/sda (or whatever disk/partition your GRUB is installed on)

This will make sure that this setting will persist when upgrading kernel or doing other maintenance tasks.

By: idebian

idebian — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:45:57 +0000

If you mean using higher resolution on virtual console, use the option vga=791 (1024×768) in your bootloader option file.

In grub just add vga=791 at the end of your default kernel line within the file /boot/menu.lst.

By: Catalin

Catalin — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:17:28 +0000

Hi !
Verry good tutorial !
I have a question …
How make smaller fonts on boot , the message will see with dmesg ?
Thank you !