I've just installed Debian Jessie -- seems to me there's no point upgrading to stable if I can't fix this problem -- booting with LILO. I don't use grub because I've never figured it out.
So it boots fine as far as VGA mode...nice clear readable text etc. But by the time I get to the getty login, the screen resolution drops (or raises) to about 1/3 and I can barely read the text.
I've spent HOURS googling and searching and trying stuff like systemctl, xrandr, lsmod, looking at runlevel symlinks, scripts...etc. 90% of the time I get the old "command not found' Yippee!!!
So it can't really be THAT difficult to change the screen resolution affecting all instances of getty (or what have you) so that each terminal is readable...is it????
What I've got:
Jessie
Asus P4S8X
SiS chipset
Radeon 9800 VGA / DVI using VGA
Asus VW266 Monitor (2048 x 1536 max)
Took a look through dmesg and noticed a few things:
[drm] radeon kernel mode setting enabled
[drm] initializing kernel mode setting (RV280 0x1002:0x5960 0x1748:0x0250)
some stuff about failing to load firmware radeon/R200_cp.bin
then eventually
fbcon: radeondrmfb (fb0) is primary device
Console: switching to color frame buffer device 240x75
[drm] Initialized radeon 2.39.0 20080528 for 0000:00:0c.0 on minor 0
Any suggestions???
