Setting text console dimensions via Grub2

[Garry Turkington]

Hi,

Thanks to Janina and Jason for their help on this.  It's still
defeating me however.

With grub2 the vga= parameter isn't supported anymore so simply
setting vga=xyz isn't an option anymore.  Googling gives a bunch of
info re setting gfxmode parameters and ensuring a few modules are
loaded but I'm still ending up with a 80x25 console.

So let me ask the question another way.  If anyone is running a newer
distro what did they need do to ensure a console with greater than a
80x25 layout?

Thanks,
Garry

On 5/18/10, Jason White <jason at jasonjgw.net> wrote:
> You can also use the fbset command, which under Debian can be found in
> the fbset package.
>
> It is installed, but I haven't tried it, since the default resolution of
> my framebuffer consoles does what I want: it maximizes the number of
> characters on the display.
>
>
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