Terminal resolution on Ubuntu server?

[Andrew Farris]

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 21:42 +0100, Werner Schram wrote:
> Knute Johnson wrote:
[snip]
> > The problem is that I have a hard time reading it without my glasses and 
> > would love to put it back to something a little less dense.  Anybody 
> > know how to adjust that?  I want to keep the color though.
> >
> >   
> If you are using pure textmode, you can use the svgatextmode package. 
> This will install the SVGATextMode command, and the /etc/TextMode config 
> file.

you can also set the resolution via a kernel boot argument, via adding
something to the effect of "vga=###" to the end of the kernel line in
grub, where ### is a number code, specifying a resolution.

For more info, see this help page about the console framebuffer:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ConsoleFramebuffer

Hope that helps! 

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Andrew
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