From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 18 8: 9:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ABC537B400 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 08:09:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stevenfettig.com ([12.76.86.122]) by mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020618150859.SNKT40.mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net@stevenfettig.com>; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 15:08:59 +0000 Message-ID: <3D0F4D0C.6090804@stevenfettig.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:09:00 -0500 From: Steve Fettig User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Console Display Size and X 4.2 Problems on Thinkpad 770ED References: <20020618060143.W61592-100000@small.pukruppa.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message