I have Ubuntu 14.04 and a Nvidia GT 740. Just changed from the nouveau driver to the Nvidia proprietary driver. Resolution looks awesome on the desktop/windows environment. Games look awesome, the only thing that doesn't is startup/shutdown terminal text and also the main thing I am worried about is the virtual terminal text.

I use the virtual terminals a lot (alt+f6, alt+f5 etc.). The text is huge, and hard to look at. I can't seem to find a way to up the resolution. Any ideas?

Looking at the terminal you have:
File, Edit, View, Search, Terminal and Help.

Click on 'Terminal'
You should have options to change the size/resolution.

I have the following and you should too.

I have those same options. That will change the resolution on my GUI terminal in my desktop manager. But I am talking about when I press alt+f6 for example to go to a full screen virtual terminal. That is the resolution that is all messed up.

Don't know how to do it in Ubuntu, but nVidia driver can be built with KMS support, loading nvidia_modeset module will then allow you higher resolution on console.

He said "terminal" but it's console he meant.

Sorry, lol.

So, does anyone know in Ubuntu if there is a quick fix for this? Or is it super involved? If it is super involved, any resources that you could point me to would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Alternative to nvidia KMS would be uvesafb, I have used it with nvidia driver and it does not interfere. But again, I do not know how to use it in Ubuntu. (Everything is simple in Gentoo, there is only one configuration tool, it is called $EDITOR. In Ubuntu one must follow the Ubuntu way to make configuration changes stick ... too complicated for me.)

Try here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution

https://www.google.com/search?q=boot...linux+terminal


Think on what Emerson said. Studying and doing a little research on how other things work will bring you to a generalization and theory of what would work for your current troubleshooting issue. There may be a way to tweak settings for your GPU so that the konsole's resolution can be optimized, changed or otherwise modified.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...l_mode_setting
https://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting

What GPU do you have?

I am checking out the links. It is the GeForce gt740.

i had the exact same problem a year or two ago, and tried pretty much the exact same things suggested in this thread so far (kms, uvesafb...) and nothing changed the fact that the proprietary nvidia driver could not display the console in native resolution.
the only thing that kindof worked was an ugly hack that would start the system with nouveau, and unload nouveau and load nvidia just before starting an X session (and that still wouldn't help with switching ttys once X is up).
in the end i just decided to forget about it and continue using the proprietary driver (accepting the tty issue).

however, it sorted itself out recently!

i haven't changed anything, so i guess it must be either due to a kernel upgrade or to a nvidia driver upgrade.
fwiw:

No worries. How could you know? They all look alike, sorta.

I wouldn't know a .45 from a .38, so don't feel bad.
Peace.

Here's the driver if your interested.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-d...-319.17-driver

Why 319.17?

http://www.nvidia.com/download/drive...px/98373/en-us

Because the gt 740 is supported on that page.
The link you provided is for the 361.28 GeForce 945A
-::-OP's GPU is the GT 740 in post #9-::-

Click on SUPPORTED PRODUCTS tab on the page I linked to.