Change the console resolution
September 30th, 2005 by George Notaras
The default console resolution can be changed by passing the “vga=value” parameter from GRUB. You can do this at the boot screen or by editing the /boot/grub/grub.conf file. For example:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ vga=0x303 quiet
Here follows a table with color depth / resolution combinations and their respective hexademical value for the vga parameter:
| 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
----+-------------------------------------
256 | 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x307
32k | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x319
64k | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x31A
16M | 0x312 0x315 0x318 0x31B
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