[arch-releng] size of the "display" (framebuffer?) on our images

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Thu Feb 19 10:56:59 EST 2009


On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I find that the size of our "display" (this is the framebuffer
>> resolution, right?) is quite small.
>> Most distro's that I know of have a bigger size/resolution when
>> booting their isos.
>> Is there a reason we keep it so small? compatibility with older systems?
>
> Because we leave it up to the users to specify a vga= line in grub?

This is what I've always done. Just edit the grub line and add
"vga=791" or something


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