Increasing resolution of debian terminal

[sixstringartist]

Hello,

I am running a Debian linux user that does not have a form of windowing installed (i.e. Gnome/KDE). I have simply been using the terminal, but I would like to increase the resolution of the terminal so that I have less of an issue of word wrap while coding. Can this be done?

[devils casper]

Add vga=773 at the end of kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst file and reboot machine.

[sixstringartist]

Ah thank you.

Could you possibly explain what this means?

For example, what is the significance of 773? Could I use other values to tweak the resolution?

[chadders]

colour		depth	| 640x480  800x600  1024x768 1280x1024
256		(8bit)	|  769      771       773      775
32000		(15bit)	|  784      787       790      793
65000		(16bit)	|  785      788       791      794
16.7 Mill.	(24bit)	|  786      789       792      795

source: http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/gr...linux/menu.lst