From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Nov 7 1:47:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mserv.rug.ac.be (mserv.rug.ac.be [157.193.40.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57B5F1502D for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 01:47:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank@zeus.rug.ac.be) Received: from zeus.rug.ac.be (zeus.rug.ac.be [157.193.41.38]) by mserv.rug.ac.be (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA23627; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 10:47:17 +0100 (MET) Received: (from frank@localhost) by zeus.rug.ac.be (8.9.2/8.9.3) id KAA16068; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 10:45:46 +0100 Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 10:45:46 +0100 From: Frank Louwers To: William Woods Cc: Eric Hedstrom , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vidcontrol on a IBM Thinkpad 770E Message-ID: <19991107104546.A7972@zeus.rug.ac.be> References: <3824D61B.D682E51@jacinto.yi.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from wwoods@cybcon.com on Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 05:58:22PM -0800 X-Useless-Header: this is a very stupid bandwith consuming line X-Operating-System: Unix Forever! Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 05:58:22PM -0800, William Woods wrote: > What would I look for in the BIOS... Well, I have a TP760CD, and here it is something controlled by the thinkpad utils. Boot from a dos disk with the TP stuff installed and issue the command: ps2.exe expn on (or something like that, i don't have my tp around). (a ps2.exe help | more will do miracles :)) BUT, i don't do this on my 760. Why? 1) it is only 800x600, so the screen is not that small 2) the letters are just plain ugly! 3) if i don't use it, i can still get a bigger screen using vidcontrol mode 80x30. It doesn't get as big as normal, but still makes some difference, and you get 5 more lines :) If I am correct, your 770 will allow resolutions up to 1024, no? So maybe you can even use mode 80x43 ... Hope this helps, Frank -- Frank Louwers Unix System Administrator PGP ID: 0x0AFB3FBB PGP Fingerprint: AB C2 B4 D1 89 62 F6 58 55 94 09 32 C3 6E DE 17 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message