How to get the high resolution back for tty after activation of nVidia driver in Ubuntu

Ubuntu 10.10 has a nice dis­play (high res­o­lu­tion) of com­mand line (tty) by default. Well at least it is out­put per­fectly in my T61p. But after my acti­va­tion of nVidia dri­ver, the tty returned to the ker­nel default which is 640×480. I really can­not work in such a tiny space. Let’s tweak it a bit.

/*Update:
One more point to men­tion, I did all the fol­low­ing steps in a clean installed Ubuntu. So if you can­not get the expected result, you may want to check your sys­tems con­fig files. Make sure they are “clean”. And you may also want to check your pack­ages are not “that dif­fer­ent” with the Ubuntu 10.10’s.
*/

Before we start, please make sure that you didn’t change any­thing in the con­fig­u­ra­tions of grub and ply­mouth. And we will also need to install two pack­ages: v86d and hwinfo.

Look up your favorite res­o­lu­tion mode ID

You will be able to see a list like this:

The hex num­bers are the mode ID. In my case I will pick 0x037d. Now we need to tell the ker­nel which res­o­lu­tion should be picked when start.

Find the fol­low­ing three lines.

Change them to:

Then save the file. Open another file:

Append the fol­low­ing line:

We will need to cre­ate a new file:

OK, we are almost done. Just need to update the configurations.

Final step, restart. And that’s it. Enjoy!

If you want to make your tty sup­port Chinese/Japanese/Korean, please refer to post 给Ubuntu tty加中文.