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Subject: Re: What determines the width of the virtual consoles?
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Zaphod Beeblebrox decreed, Read These Runes!:
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 06:56:20 -0500, philo wrote:
> 
>> On 04/28/2015 06:56 PM, Kenny McCormack wrote:
>>> What I mean is: The number displayed as the number of columns when I do
>>> "stty -a", like this: stty -a -F /dev/tty1
>>>
>>> I have two systems, running the same OS on the same hardware.  One one
>>> machine, when I do: sudo stty -a -F /dev/tty1, it says "164 columns".
>>> On the other one, when I do the same command, it says "222 columns".
>>>
>>> Note that on both machines (and, as far as I know, on any Linux
>>> system),
>>> you get the same result for any of the virtual consoles (/dev/tty1,
>>> /dev/tty2, etc).  But you seem to get different results on different
>>> systems.  What determines this?
>> 
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ConsoleFramebuffer
> 
> Good partial answer. My HDMI 1920x1080 monitor isn't listed, I wonder
> what resolution it's using. It says "rows 67 columns 240". The one
> piece that seems to be missing here is the choice of font for the tty.

I can offer a solution that works well here:

fbset -a -xres 1920 -yres 1080 #in rc.local
setfont -v iso02-12x22.psfu.gz #in rc.font

Season to taste for your distro's init..

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