From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Sep 30 2:27:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from student.rug.ac.be (student.rug.ac.be [157.193.88.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E59B37B502; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 02:27:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from frank@localhost) by student.rug.ac.be (8.9.3/8.9.3/DSA/1.0) id LAA00447Sat, 30 Sep 2000 11:27:05 +0200 Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 11:27:05 +0200 From: Frank Louwers To: "Gary T. Corcoran" Cc: Mike Smith , Danny Howard , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: text console size on IBM TP 240? Message-ID: <20000930112705.B32706@student.rug.ac.be> References: <200009292223.e8TMN6A60612@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <39D54DA8.AD62EB49@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <39D54DA8.AD62EB49@home.com>; from garycor@home.com on Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 10:19:20PM -0400 X-PGP2: 1024R/1A899409 C3 D8 FA D3 E0 0E 40 C5 10 32 83 74 36 F0 E5 95 X-GPG: 1024D/3F6A7EDD D597 566A BDF5 BBFB C308 447A 5E81 1188 3F6A 7EDD X-NSA: tripoli bomb white house explosive crack phr3ak operation sunrise Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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. Same on my TP760CD. The stretched font is just plain awfull. > > 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... Well, you can tell your fbsd to run in VESA_80x30 mode, but that won't change a lot. Still not the entire size used up. In leenox, there is SVGATextMode that allows me to use font size 107x39 or something like that. If I have A LOT of time, i might have a look at how they do it, and look if I can patch something for bsd ... Frank -- Frank Louwers Network- and System-Administrator See headers for GPG and PGP2 id and fingerprint To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message