RHEL:Change Screen Resolution of Virtual Console

Question

I am working on a RHEL 6.3 Workstation. And the monitor is a HD AOC Monitor. Problem I am facing is whenever this machine starts up, it runs with maximum screen resolution. It is a big screen and therefore causing eye-strain while I am working on virtual terminal (accessed by typing ALT+CTRL+(F1-F6)). How can I resolve this issue?

[root@manmatha grub]# uname -a
Linux manmatha 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 20 12:17:37 EST 2013
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Solution

Yes.after doing a large amount of browsing, i got this

add a parameter

video=XRES x YRES

to the kernel parameter list while the system boots up.To make it permanent you may change the corresponding kernel's parameter list.Usually it resides in-

/boot/grub/grub.conf

Alternatively you can use the

fbset

tool.Use

<su>yum install fbset

or similar commands to install it on your system.

Comments

[Incnis Mrsi]

Related: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/228156/…

[damien]

xrandr is an interface to RandR, which is an extension to the X Window System.

[Alessandro Meyer]

Yes and it is an RH Workstation so he's supposedly on X?

[terdon]

If this solved your issue, please take a moment to accept it.

[hildred]

not on virtual consoles 1-6