Change boot screen resolution

wildcard442 · #1 14th December 2009, 01:32 AM

I am using FC10... how do I change the resolution of the "Boot Up" screen? My monitor is 1024x768 capable but my boot screen is 1280x1024. I don't get anything until it finally loads X Windows.

When my machine is booting up i cannot see the screen because my monitor can't handle it. When I hook it up to my other monitor (1280x1024 capable) I can see the boot up screen.

I'd like to be able to see the boot screen in case there are any errors I need to se.

How do I change it?

Thanks!

PabloTwo · #2 14th December 2009, 03:31 AM

You could try adding "vga=0x317", without the quotes, to the kernel boot line of your current working kernel in /boot/grub/grub.conf. vga=0x317 (or vga=791 if you want it in decimal format) should give you a 16 bit color depth 1024x768 resolution screen. I use this so I have more screen real estate to view the bootup messages in text mode on F12.

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.........KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet rdblacklist=nouveau vga=791