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I have a Asus EEE PC 1005P which I installed a Command-line system on using the Alternate Installer CD of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx. Altough I think this is a general linux and grub2 question. I do not have (or want) the X Window System installed.
I want to change my console screen resolution (not inside X) to 1024x600. But it isn't reported when I use vbeinfo inside grub:
grub> vbeinfo
VBE info: version: 3.0 OEM software rev: 1.0
total memory: 8128 KiB
List of compatible video modes:
Legend: P=Packed pixel, D=Direct color, mask/pos=R/G/B/reserved
0x112: 640 x 480 x 32 Direct, mask: 8/8/8/8 pos: 16/8/0/24
0x114: 800 x 600 x 16 Direct, mask: 5/6/5/0 pos: 11/5/0/0
0x115: 800 x 600 x 32 Direct, mask: 8/8/8/8 pos: 16/8/0/24
0x101: 640 x 480 x 8 Packed
0x103: 800 x 600 x 8 Packed
0x111: 640 x 480 x 16 Direct, mask: 5/6/5/0 pos: 11/5/0/0
Configured VBE mode (vbe_mode) = ox101
grub>
Relevant parts of sudo lspci -v:
... ...
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 83ac
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28
...
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 83ac
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28
...
... ...
Any ideas on how I can set the console resultion like I want it?
Added!
sudo fbset -i:
mode "1024x600"
geometry 1024 600 1024 600 32
timings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,0/0
endmode
Frame buffer device information:
Name : inteldrmfb
Address : 0xd0830000
Size : 2457600
Type : PACKED PIXELS
Visual : TRUECOLOR
XPanStep : 1
YPanStep : 1
YWrapStep : 0
LineLength : 4096
MMIO Address : 0xf7e00000
MMIO Size : 524288
Accelerator : No
Does it mean I have the driver? Any ideas on how to set it to 1024 x 600 in grub2?
+1 The uvesafb trick on the page you mentioned made my Ubuntu 10.04 run beautifully inside a VMware server. – karlphillip – 2010-09-01T14:22:45.830