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Date:      Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:09:00 -0500
From:      Steve Fettig <lists@stevenfettig.com>
To:        Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Console Display Size and X 4.2 Problems on Thinkpad 770ED
Message-ID:  <3D0F4D0C.6090804@stevenfettig.com>
References:  <20020618060143.W61592-100000@small.pukruppa.de>

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Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Steve Fettig wrote:
> 
> 
>>I am working on reviving an old machine that has been my workhorse for
>>years and just installed FreeBSD 4.6-Release onto it and am having two
>>problems.
>>The regular, non-x, screen is 640x480 in the middle of a 14" screen and
>>I can't figure out how to get it to "stretch" like it normally would on
>>a monitor to fill up the whole screen...  Any mini- how-do-ya' do it
>>guides for this?  (Yes, I've checked the bios, etc. and there doesn't
>>seem to be anything in there allowing me to change this...)
> 
> Did you have a look at
> # vidcontrol
> and its man ?
> Perhaps your graphics card is broken. Try a different one.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Uli.

Uli,

Thanks for the suggestion on vidcontrol -- I am currently going through 
the man page and think this should do the trick.  I need to add an 
option to the kernel, but I needed to customize it anyway.  Thanks again!

Steve


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