Take the 2-minute tour ×  Google could not help me with this
problem. I hope you guys can.  When I boot my computer, the
first few screens presented to me by BIOS and boot menu are
stretched to fit the LCD screen. Once Linux boots, however, the
screen shrinks so one pixel of the console font uses only one
pixel of the screen, causing the usable area of screen to shrink
to only the upper left part of the screen, since the console
uses only 640x480 of the 1280x1024 size monitor.  I know I can
use the VGA= boot flag to set modes that increases the number of
rows and columns of text, so that the whole screen is used.
However, what I want to do is keep the number of rows and
columns as they are but scale the whole screen to fit the
monitor, just like the BIOS boot messages. I need to do this in
a way that will work on any monitor automatically.  EDIT: I've
not given info on hardware on purpose, because I want the
solution to be hardware-agnostic. The distribution I'm using is
Ubuntu 10.10.  share|improve this ques