[lug] centos 6 console issues

John Hernandez jph at jph.net
Sun Jan 22 09:19:57 MST 2012


Karl, the boot parameter for framebuffer resolution is vga=

There is a good overview of your options here
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Framebuffer_resolution

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Matt James <matuse at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Jan 22, 2012 12:03 AM, "karl horlen" <horlenkarl at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > just got centos 6 installed.  purely text based consoles (no gui).
> unfortunately,  2-4 characters are cut off from teh left side of ever text
> based console!
>
> Please don't take offense at my simple solution, but have you checked your
> monitor settings?  Maybe try the "auto adjust" feature of many LCD
> monitors.  I know my KVM switch causes this type of behavior all the time.
>
> Just something simple to check before going into more lengthy solutions.
> :-)
>
> Matt
>
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