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How can I stop Ubuntu making my TTYs a nice resolution?

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I have a Nvidia card. Binary drivers. No KMS support. For these reasons, I've been used to a fairly awful resolution in my TTYs. I did once try increasing the resolution of the TTYs using a grub hack but that had a huge effect on the performance of the X screen - so I nuked it.

11.10 seems to be applying a high resolution to terminals for me. I feel it might be slowing down my X screen (both 2D and gaming performance is pretty poor) so I want to revert things to when I could only fit three characters on the screen at once </exaggeration>.

I had a look in /etc/default/grub.d/00_header and started to cry. I've no idea what I'm looking for. When I did this before it was using a much simpler format.

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answered 1 Year ago ainsbeave · Accepted Answer

Edit /etc/default/grub with your favorite text editor, ie

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Look for these lines

# The resolution used on graphical terminal

# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE

# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'

#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

Un-comment the last line and set the resolution you would like your TTYs to be.

After run editing the line with the desired resolution run

sudo update-grub

It will apply on next reboot.