[wplug] cli resolution

[Eric C. Cooper]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 03:14:36PM -0500, Teodorski, Chris wrote:
> I have a Dell laptop, when I am at the command line; it uses only
> the middle 2/3 of the screen, leaving a big border of unused space
> around the screen.  I can inflate that by using the fn+F7 (font) to
> enlarge what I am seeing on the screen, but it doesn't really
> increase the resolution, it just magnifies things Is there a way to
> manipulate the resolution for the command line?

Use a framebuffer console.  Which one depends on which graphics chip
your laptop uses.  If yours isn't supported, you can probably compile
in vesafb to your kernel as a fallback, and pass "vga=792" on the boot
line to get a 1024x768x16 console.  See Documentation/fb/* in
the kernel source.

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