From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Sep 29 15:21:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-176-106.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.176.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 252B937B66C for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 15:21:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8TMN6A60612; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 15:23:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200009292223.e8TMN6A60612@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Danny Howard Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: text console size on IBM TP 240? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 29 Sep 2000 15:17:52 PDT." <20000929151752.K34935@never.tellme.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 15:23:06 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > But, as small as the screen is, I think I'd just as soon stick with the > console for most things, and run screen. Unfortunately, the console leaves > well over an inch of LCD on each side, making the font smaller and less fun to > squint at than it should be. > > I looked through LINT, but have no clue if I can coax the text console in to > eating up the entire LCD. Has anyone a good experience here and can point me > in the right direction? There's probably an undocumented BIOS hotkey that will put the screen in 'stretch' mode. Try Fn and work your way through everything until you find it. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message