[TriLUG] text display resolution

[Douglas Kojetin]

Hi All-

Probably a stupid (easy) question, but I've googled enough today!  I'd 
like to change the display resolution (to a higher resolution; smaller 
text) of my monitor ... I understand this is 'normally' done under 
/etc/X11/XF86Config (i think), but I do not boot into X ...

:: snip:: of  /etc/inittab
id:3:initdefault:

So how can I change the screen resolution, because knocking off lower 
resolutions in the XF86Config file does not appear to work.

Thanks,
Doug