bigger screen resolution for shell textmode like

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#1 Mon, 2013-07-01 16:53

WriteConsole

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hi,

currently my alpine is using textmode,
i want to view it bigger (no need GUI, just plain textmode or vga vesa mode)

objective is 1024x768 or bigger, and minimalistic approach,

is Xorg my only choice? or xvesa, any guide to set up those mode?

thank you,

ps: I posted on mailing list but no reply, so gonna try my luck here,
congratulate new opening, alpine forum

#2 Wed, 2013-08-14 14:42

ncopa

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you'll need a framebuffer driver for your video card. Its probably only a question of removing the proper driver in /etc/modules.d/blacklist (or remove all *fb drivers there) and then add fbcon to /etc/modules.

#3 Sun, 2013-12-01 03:09

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It depends on what your video hardware is. On a few machines, I have Intel embedded graphics, and there the trick is to do "modprobe i915". This happens automatically if I start up X (and it stays in that mode even after quitting X).