I have 200 chars in width, and only 2 old eyes. That's too much of too little :)

I've seen various answers on these forums, but none of them seemed to help me.

:~$ sudo hwinfo --framebuffer | grep Mode

Model: "Intel(R)Sandybridge Mobile Graphics Controller"

SNIP! 

Mode 0x0318: 1024x768 (+4096), 24 bits

SNIP!

Is the resolution I'm going for

(I've cut away a lot of resolutions there)

I'm on Oneiric which of course means grub2