Setting text console dimensions via Grub2

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Gary:

The best advice I can offer will require some sighted assistance.

1.) Put 'vga=ask' in your grub.conf and reboot.

2.)	Shortly after linux starts there'll be a screen of available
resolutions. You want to do a Scroll-Lock at that point so you can have
the time you need to have your sighted helper read the available modes
andhex settings to you.

#.)	After you've written your choice down, finish the boot, adjust
your grub.conf accordingly, and reboot once again.

This should do it. Actually, I have no experience of grub2, but don't
expect grub is actually involved in setting the resolution you need in
Linux consoles.

hth

Janina

Garry Turkington writes:
> Hi all,
> 
> Firstly, apologies if this is a duplicate, interesting mail issues at
> this end...
> 
> I've returned to Speakup after a while and am enjoying proper Linux console
> access once again.
> 
> One thing is frustrating me and I suspect it's been addressed before though
> a search of prior postings didn't give me the magic I wanted.
> 
> In the old Grub days I had a vga=0x317 setting in my menu.lst to give a very
> wide and tall console screen, something like 140 columns and 40+ rows, which
> made life much better.  The migration to Grub2 has given different settings
> and I can't find a reliable way of getting such an effect now.
> 
> I've set things like gfxpayload=keep after setting the higher resolution in
> the config files but this seems to give me the same old 80x25 vconsole size.
> Is there some magic I'm missing?  Using Debian 5 if it makes a difference.
> 
> Thanks,
> garry
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