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Display geometry with GRUB

Display geometry with GRUB - Linux Tutorial

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Display geometry with GRUB

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- [Instructor] When we're working with a Linux system, sometimes we'll run across problems getting the display resolution just right. Most Window managers handle the screen resolution in a reasonable way and often pick either the correct resolution or at least a reasonable resolution when they start up a desktop environment. On native installations, this is usually the case, as long as you have the correct video drivers installed. But on virtual machines, sometimes things get weird. Whether you're working in a native installation or with a virtual one, it's important to know how to tweak the resolution when you need to. There's a bit of a tricky component to this though. There's two resolutions we need to think about which affect different parts of the system. In this episode, we'll take a look at the resolution used by the console, the part of the system we see when the system boots and what we use when we're in the…

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