[lug] centos 6 console issues

[karl horlen]

looks like a good article.  i'll give some of the things mentioned a try.  thanks


to the other poster, i already tried adjusting my physical monitor.   probably should have mentioned it in my original post.




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> From: John Hernandez <jph at jph.net>
>To: Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List <lug at lug.boulder.co.us> 
>Cc: karl horlen <horlenkarl at yahoo.com> 
>Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 9:19 AM
>Subject: Re: [lug] centos 6 console issues
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>Karl, the boot parameter for framebuffer resolution is vga=
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>There is a good overview of your options here
>https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Framebuffer_resolution
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>On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Matt James <matuse at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On Jan 22, 2012 12:03 AM, "karl horlen" <horlenkarl at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> 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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