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mikewilliamson
Asked: 2011-01-20 18:34:01 +0800 CST

High resolution CLI?

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I want the resolution of my console to match my screen resolution(1440x900). 1024x768 works fine but for some reason when I put 1440x900 when I switch to ttyX the command prompt is almost right off the bottom of the screen! The Ubuntu splash screen goes off the edge of the screen during boot as well.

Here is my /etc/default/grub 

  4 GRUB_DEFAULT=0
  5 GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
  6 GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
  7 GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
  8 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
  9 GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
 10 GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
 11 GRUB_GFXMODE=1440x900
 12 GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep

How do I get my CLI resolution to be 1440x900?

10.10

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    For what it's worth, this is something Kernel Mode Setting does for us automatically. KMS is a feature available for most of the open source graphics drivers. Basically, it means the system figures out the screen resolution as early as possible and sticks with it.

    If you are willing to give up fancy 3D support and your graphics hardware has an open source driver available, you can try switching to that.
    That's “nouveau,” as opposed to “nvidia,” for NVidia hardware.
    “ati/radeon,” as opposed to “fglrx” for ATI hardware.

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  2. Here is what you have to do to get Plymouth working with proprietary Nvidia drivers.

    1. Edit the /etc/default/grub file.

    Open a terminal and run this command (you can paste it in):

    gksu gedit /etc/default/grub

    Uncomment this line (by removing the leading # character):

    GRUB_GFXMODE=1440x900

    2. Edit /etc/grub.d/00_header.

    Run:

    gksu gedit /etc/grub.d/00_header

    Find the line that says:

    gfxmode=${GRUB_GFXMODE}

    Make a new line right after that line. The new line should say:

    set gfxpayload=keep

    3. Update the GRUB2 configuration.

    To apply the new GRUB configuration, simply run:

    sudo update-grub
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