Grub VGA Mode

Posted on November 28, 2008, 15:46, by rmichel, under Linux.

You would like to know what Grub VGA Mode you can use ? Default is something like that

Color depth      | 640x480  800x600  1024x768 1280x1024
-----------------+-------------------------------------
256        (8bit)|  769      771       773      775
32000     (15bit)|  784      787       790      793
65000     (16bit)|  785      788       791      794
16.7 Mill.(24bit)|  786      789       792      795

but with hwinfo --framebuffer you get an output like this

stina:/home/rmichel# hwinfo --framebuffer
02: None 00.0: 11001 VESA Framebuffer
  [Created at bios.450]
  Unique ID: rdCR.VSBbdW2x3qC
  Hardware Class: framebuffer
  Model: "NVIDIA G86 Board - NV_NB8M "
  Vendor: "NVIDIA Corporation"
  Device: "G86 Board - NV_NB8M "
  SubVendor: "NVIDIA"
  SubDevice:
  Revision: "Chip Rev"
  Memory Size: 14 MB
  Memory Range: 0xd1000000-0xd1dfffff (rw)
  Mode 0x0300: 640x400 (+640), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0301: 640x480 (+640), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0303: 800x600 (+800), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0305: 1024x768 (+1024), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0307: 1280x1024 (+1280), 8 bits
  Mode 0x030e: 320x200 (+640), 16 bits
  Mode 0x030f: 320x200 (+1280), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0311: 640x480 (+1280), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0312: 640x480 (+2560), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0314: 800x600 (+1600), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0315: 800x600 (+3200), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0317: 1024x768 (+2048), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0318: 1024x768 (+4096), 24 bits
  Mode 0x031a: 1280x1024 (+2560), 16 bits
  Mode 0x031b: 1280x1024 (+5120), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0330: 320x200 (+320), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0331: 320x400 (+320), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0332: 320x400 (+640), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0333: 320x400 (+1280), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0334: 320x240 (+320), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0335: 320x240 (+640), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0336: 320x240 (+1280), 24 bits
  Mode 0x033d: 640x400 (+1280), 16 bits
  Mode 0x033e: 640x400 (+2560), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0345: 1600x1200 (+1600), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0346: 1600x1200 (+3200), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0347: 1400x1050 (+1400), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0348: 1400x1050 (+2800), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0349: 1400x1050 (+5600), 24 bits
  Mode 0x034a: 1600x1200 (+6400), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0352: 2048x1536 (+8192), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0360: 1280x800 (+1280), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0361: 1280x800 (+5120), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0362: 768x480 (+768), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0364: 1440x900 (+1440), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0365: 1440x900 (+5760), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0368: 1680x1050 (+1680), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0369: 1680x1050 (+6720), 24 bits
  Mode 0x037c: 1920x1200 (+1920), 8 bits
  Mode 0x037d: 1920x1200 (+7680), 24 bits
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

My notebook has native 1680×1050 so i can use vga=0×369 to boot up with 1680×1050 :)

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3 Comments

  1. Javier says:
    January 22, 2009 at 01:00

    Thank you!!

    very useful ;-)

  2. Pedro says:
    April 8, 2009 at 22:04

    Thanks :D

  3. Run a script when computer boots - openSUSE Forums says:
    January 31, 2010 at 18:09

    [...] Originally Posted by lostidentity Thanks. 1. I run them as normal user. 2. After the computer has booted up properly 3. KDE 4.3.* I remember when I had openSUSE 11.1, with KDE 3.5 I was able to achieve this. I can't remember exactly where I had the commands, but I suspect it wasn't in /etc/init.d/boot.local but it must've rather been for the user. /etc/init.d/boot.local runs just before the system transitions to runlevel 5 (confirm this by echoing something); runlevel 5 kicks off the display manager e.g KDM. I think should put your script in ~/.kde4/Autostart. That said, have you tried changing the resolution at the boot prompt? Try it by hand and confirm everything works first before changing the boot configuration in YaST. Grub VGA Mode — /dev/null [...]

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