Server install with hires console

I want to install a minimal openSUSE system on a couple of spare computers, but I’d really like the high res console that you get in the desktop installations of openSUSE with the background. I don’t absolutely need it, but it’s the one thing that makes me choose openSUSE over other distro’s and I don’t want to give it up without a fight.

Can someone advise how to get the nice looking console in a minimal (no Xorg) installation? Thanks.

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I don’t think your answer is relevant to the question.

Can you explain how using susestudio will help me get the hires console from a desktop install of openSUSE in a minimal install?

defex wrote:
> help me get the hires console from a desktop install of openSUSE in
> a minimal install?

define “hires console”…wait, i think you are asking:

How can i have a GUI terminal/console (similar to gnome-terminal,
Konsole, Terminal, or xterm) on a (text based) server without
installing X?

is that your question?


palladium

He wants to enable framebuffer with vga=xxx parameter.

Chrysantine wrote:
> He wants to enable framebuffer with vga=xxx parameter.

when i grow up i hope i know as much as you…
(and, i mean that…i am jealous)


palladium

@Palladium: Sorry, I may have explained my question badly. I’m not exactly a linux buff or anything.

I’m referring to the standard text terminal/console of Linux (no Xorg here :P). The desktop install of openSUSE gets a nice high resolution terminal (when you go to one of the alt+ctrl+fX terminals) that fits perfectly on my monitor (1920x1200).

I did a minimal text only installation, and all I’m getting seems to be 1024x768 and no pretty backdrop (call me pedantic, but I do like the terminal backdrop. It’s an aesthetics thing).

So what I’m hoping to do is clone the terminal configuration from a desktop install (resolution, style and all) and apply it to a minimal install.

@Crysantine: Doing some searching on those terms got what I needed. I managed to get it close to full resolution. Thanks. Will keep working on it.

Do you know where the terminal style config is located?

defex wrote:
> Do you know where the terminal style config is located?

you may have to send her a private message to get her attention…she
is pretty busy…

until then, if you have that desktop enabled machine still available
TRY this:

sudo cat /boot/menu.lst | grep vga=

pick through the output and try all the vga=[whatevers] you find

i don’t think you are likely to blow anything up with that, but just
in case: read this first http://tinyurl.com/6aagco


palladium