From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 3 6:49:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mimer.webgiro.com [212.209.29.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8104F37B9B9; Wed, 3 May 2000 06:49:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 66) id 58E332DC0C; Wed, 3 May 2000 15:53:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2D2FD7811; Wed, 3 May 2000 15:48:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2848510E17; Wed, 3 May 2000 15:48:03 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 15:48:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: "Eric D. Futch" Cc: Dan Moschuk , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Toshiba 4260 screen problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2 May 2000, Eric D. Futch wrote: > I recall someone on the freebsd-mobile mailing list having a similar > problem. What I told them to try was using options VESA in their > kernel config or use the vesa.ko kernel module. I looked at it a little > more closely and it appears that you might also need the SC_PIXEL_MODE > option in your kernel config to get raster text mode to work. > > After you have that in your kernel then you can use vidcontrol to change > the video mode to VESA_800x600 for 800x600 raster text mode. They seemed > to be happy with the results. > > Try it out and let me know wether or not it was helpful. I have Portege 7020CT. The problem you describe (if I read it correctly) might be related to the display setting in BIOS (Stretch enabled). However, the stretching is implemented in very weird way - the screen font in normal 80x25 mode is a bit ugly, so I use 80x43 with small font all the time. It looks ok, and gives you additional lines as well.. :-) Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message