Increase Console Resolution In Ubuntu
Higher resolution means more text in the same window this especially applies to the console. The following was tested in Debian 7 Wheezy and Ubuntu 13.04. With Grub 2 with can easily increase the resolution by making a few changes.
Console Resolution
Open and edit the grub file.
1 | nano /etc/default/grub |
Search for the following line and uncomment “#GRUB_GFXMODE=640“, modify it to include a higher resolution such as 1440x900. Also add the line “GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep“.
1 | GRUB\_GFXMODE=1440X900 |
The lines above should be what increases the console resolution. Now update Grub.
1 | sudo update-grub |
And restart the system.
1 | sudo shutdown -r now |
Now you should be able to make better use of your monitor resolution. 
debian, grub, ubuntu — Sep 22, 2013