Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 22:19:20 -0400 From: "Gary T. Corcoran" <garycor@home.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Danny Howard <dannyman@tellme.com>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: text console size on IBM TP 240? Message-ID: <39D54DA8.AD62EB49@home.com> References: <200009292223.e8TMN6A60612@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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Mike Smith wrote: > > > 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. I have a TP 240 (Windows only). It came to me with text "stretch" enabled. The characters were difficult to read - I hated it. I found an option in the BIOS setup screen to disable it and much prefer the more-clearly-defined non-stretched characters. Too bad there isn't a way to just _use_ more of the screen with the non-stretched characters. But you'd have to put the screen in bit-mapped mode and have a custom driver for that mode. Does anything like that exist, Mike? Maybe a VESA mode??? Obviously I couldn't use it since that's not my FreeBSD machine - I'm just curious... Gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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