Samat Says (Posts about NVIDIA)https://blog.samat.org/tag/nvidia.atom2018-06-29T09:25:27ZSamat K JainNikolaHigh-resolution text console with uvesafb and Debianhttps://blog.samat.org/2010/11/09/High-resolution-text-console-with-uvesafb-and-Debian/2010-11-09T00:00:00Z2010-11-09T00:00:00ZSamat K Jain<div><p>While you may rarely use the console on your server, it's nice to have a high-resolution display just to see that many more columns and rows. Linux's vesa module (via the vga= parameter) has been around for a while and made this possible, provided you kept up with what VGA mode number to use and don't mind the spotty hardware compatibility.</p>
<p>While <abbr title="Kernel Mode Setting">KMS</abbr> is the way to do this in the future, it doesn't help us with the drivers and hardware we have now. A new kernel module, <a href="http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/fb/uvesafb.txt;h=eefdd91d298a9c9ea45e1ab9d84cdbf8ea1f1908;hb=HEAD">uvesafb</a>, mainlined in 2.6.24, is another, new option. In addition to specifying modes in a more user-friendly way (e.g. 1280x1024-32 for 32-bit color, with a 1280x1024 resolution), hardware compatibility is better—in particular, you can now get a high-resolution text console with NVIDIA display adapters.</p>
<p>In the following, I describe how to use uvesafb on Debian and derivative distributions (e.g. Ubuntu). The instructions assume kernel 2.6.27 or higher (Debian 6.0 (squeeze) and Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), or later).</p>
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