From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1U8eU8-0004s8-1i for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:19:24 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38718) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U8eU4-0004rw-SW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:19:22 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U8eU3-0006MA-Jk for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:19:20 -0500 Received: from mail-gh0-f177.google.com ([209.85.160.177]:40568) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U8eU3-0006Lc-FO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:19:19 -0500 Received: by mail-gh0-f177.google.com with SMTP id g22so6430ghb.8 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:19:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8lO74jXw02MVQSOee5GgHTC7/hMbGSMoHnsKxgirLj8=; b=Yte4VNY+M8GvAiq7u3DxVb/Wj2/matHyy7Q43B4QvrAQfzrgGwHFY9LNjLsSCK2PuH 3JtdfV25E7hSc+1b54EQ/yBNoqYpagecnD8QES2iNDSyjxnYbfwKGr7Z/sS1ZPPnA1t2 bf6PO8NfeEkuqtVoenHmhZq+nH+9FA4wlIk+KUCDpQJjPPZBJ/UxDhB5jGN1WPpW3WV9 CKZVD3AMMu16Er+mcFc8QzDBZCQlFLYxBywsAuYjkUcLaAGV6PgHsE5VNVZ+w4Guz8Bh v2r3A1hL/R+Q7kRuhZhWNWnUdHkPDKgwc06rV3KGysDPILewxguDe8RmHjuMfAzbyetj Dl4w== X-Received: by 10.236.138.79 with SMTP id z55mr46942252yhi.89.1361485158050; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:19:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.75] (cpe-70-123-218-92.satx.res.rr.com. [70.123.218.92]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b62sm192175yhf.13.2013.02.21.14.19.16 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:19:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <51269D62.4050604@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:19:14 -0600 From: Bruce Dubbs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120628 Firefox/13.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.10.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: Console Resolution with GRUB2 References: <7BA83AD3-3A95-48E9-A48D-32A2EA555D7C@colorremedies.com> <5110B696.6040705@gmail.com> <5112DCBA.2070003@catcity.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.160.177 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:19:22 -0000 D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > Hello Peter and the rest of the group. > > I appreciate Peter's efforts to help. > > However, nothing so far works as needed. > > With the old grub users who needed larger size characters simply added a > vga= line to the boot code. It was simple. > > Now it seems to be very complex. > > In fact all the answers I can find on the various newsgroups no longer > work. Also there is no one answer, but many answers, and then there are > comments like "this no longer works". > font > Would someone make it so that users can make large fonts in the console? > There are those of us who are nearly blind but still like to see the > characters on the screen. We are comfortable using 640 x 480 configuration. > > Completely blind people of course have no need to change the font size. I > understand and have changed the font size in the grub menu, but unless I > can keep that resolution in the console, it is not what I want and need. > > If I could keep that character size in console while running the screen at > high resolution it would be perfect. > > However, the problem still remains: It is very difficult to do for a new > user who wishes to use a console only system as many blind users wish to. > > I am disappointed that I cannot find an answer to this question, if there > is a better place to ask, I would be most happy to know of it, and I will > ask there. I don't know what others may say, but I just use a custom grub.cfg file. Avoid the scripts in /etc/grub.d. After all the only thing really needed in grub.cfg is: ### grub.cfg set default=0 set timeout=5 insmod ext2 set root=(hd0,1) menuentry "entry1" {} menuentry "entry2" {} etc. Adjust values to need. Using this simple configuration, grub never changes the screen resolution. Any other changes are OS specific. -- Bruce