Graphics Nvidia GT250 + 19" LG 1920 x 1080 monitor.
After a new install of 12.1 all went well - KDE at 1920 x 1080, and consoles (alt / ctrl / F1 etc) with nice clean text at monitor native resolution.
After YAST update to Nvidia drivers 2 niggles:
console now using 1280 x 1024 so fonts are not as good as before
irritating delay when switching to/from console & X (alt/ctrl/F7) as mode changes
Is there a way to have the consoles run at the native resolution of 1920 x 1080 with the Nvidia drivers? Its a non VESA mode which I suppose make life more difficult. I’ve searched high & low for this, one solution might be to use uvesafb I believe.
I do not think you can get 1920 x 1080 from grub. On each openSUSE kernel load line there is a vga=??? setting which can be substituted with a number from the chart below.
Here is a list of the available video modes:
Colour depth
640x480
800x600
1024x768
1280x1024
1400x1050
1600x1200
8 (256)
769
771
773
775
15 (32K)
784
787
790
793
16 (65K)
785
788
791
794
834
884
24 (16M)
786
789
792
795
You can also change it to vga=ask and get a complete list of YOUR supported video mode. Write down what you find for use later. To edit the menu.lst file ebter the following commands:
Do a Alt-F2 and enter either:
for KDE do a: **kdesu kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst**
OR
for gnome do a: **gnomesu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst**
If this was me, I would remove loading the nvidia driver from YaST and read the following blog posts. Its not for everyone, but it is recommended by me.