From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 22 15:40:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAE9437B400 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 15:40:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta01-srv.alltel.net (mta01.alltel.net [166.102.165.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED50F43E6A for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 15:40:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cd9@buffalo.edu) Received: from selvirjin.alltel.net ([166.102.201.55]) by mta01-srv.alltel.net with ESMTP id <20020822224033.DDJK25242.mta01-srv.alltel.net@selvirjin.alltel.net> for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 17:40:33 -0500 Received: from dragon by selvirjin.alltel.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17i0cO-000OjP-00; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 18:39:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 18:39:56 -0400 From: "C. A. Daelhousen" To: Dan Nelson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thank you all Message-ID: <20020822183956.A69747@selvirjin.alltel.net> References: <200208221751.KAA18198@eskimo.com> <20020822180424.GB17838@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020822180424.GB17838@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@allantgroup.com on Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 01:04:25PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > +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