Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:57:53 -0500 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> Cc: neil <neilcpp@blueyonder.co.uk>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop Display size problem Message-ID: <20060317025753.GA15908@holestein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20060317020856.18bc9f19@localhost> References: <1142463369.7465.11.camel@pandora.region4.net> <20060317020856.18bc9f19@localhost>
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in message <20060317020856.18bc9f19@localhost>, wrote Norberto Meijome thusly... > > On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:56:09 +0000 neil <neilcpp@blueyonder.co.uk> > wrote: > > > Hi, I am running freebsd 6 on a Fujitsu Siemens Laptop. At the > > moment, I only want to use it in text mode. The problem I have > > is that the text mode display seems to be framed into the centre > > of the screen, wasting 2 inches plus horizontally and > > vertically. > > No idea if this is similar in your Fujitsu: most Toshiba laptops > i've used have a BIOS setting (video zoom ? full screen? ) that > makes the screen look like what you describe. I think it affects > only text mode, but could be wrong. Oh yeah, that reminds my Thinkpad T42 also has that "feature" through BIOS. Once i enabled it by mistake which caused some head scratching. - Parv --
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