Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 18:39:56 -0400 From: "C. A. Daelhousen" <cd9@buffalo.edu> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thank you all Message-ID: <20020822183956.A69747@selvirjin.alltel.net> In-Reply-To: <20020822180424.GB17838@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@allantgroup.com on Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 01:04:25PM -0500 References: <200208221751.KAA18198@eskimo.com> <20020822180424.GB17838@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 01:04:25PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Aug 22), Ross Lippert said: > > Secondly, when I boot just to the console, or run X I just get this > > tiny screen about half the dimensions of the physical screen bordered > > by black. It seems that this is something people have had happen on > > toshiba's. Anyhow I guess my question is > > Most laptops do this, actually, since a standard VGA console is 640x400 > and no laptops are that resolution anymore :). There's probably a > hotkey to toggle "scale/noscale". On Sony and Dell laptops, it's > <Fn>+F. The correct fix for X is to specify your laptop's native > resolution in your XF86Config file. > If you have syscons and "options SC_PIXEL_MODE" configured, then you can use vidcontrol to get an 800x600 console. $ man vidcontrol $ /usr/sbin/vidcontrol -g 100x37 -m on VESA_800x600 You can stick the flags for that in /etc/rc.conf as the value of allscreens_flags, and it'll automagically switch to that mode at bootup. Don't do that without testing the mode first, of course. -- ..: Chad Daelhousen == cd9@buffalo.edu :.........: sig v3.1 :... : Programming for 10 +/- 2 years (50 +/- 10% of a lifetime) : :.............Perl will be the first to implement mind reading.: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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