From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Jan 5 21:24:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from jacinto.yi.org (dsl-64-34-174-133.telocity.com [64.34.174.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 083EF37B416 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 21:24:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from ucsd.edu (soledad [192.168.123.181]) by jacinto.yi.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with ESMTP id g065KXP31149; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 21:20:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from erich@ucsd.edu) Message-ID: <3C37DF65.4060204@ucsd.edu> Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 21:23:49 -0800 From: Eric =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hedstr=F6m?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20011228 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Lovett Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8k and ATI Rage Mobility 128 References: <20020105190148.A7553@bsdguru.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org With LCD screens the dots are fixed in size, so lowering the resolution doesn't make the pixels larger. If I lower the resolution on my Thinkpad it just uses the middle (say) 1280x1024 pixels, and I get a black border around the edge. Eric Ben Lovett wrote: > I have been running FreeBSD on my I8K since June of 2001, with XFree86 > 4.x on a ATI Rage Mobility 128 video card. And, because I opted to get > the 1600x1200 resolution screen I have been running at that since then. > But... because I tend to value my eyesight, I would like to decrease the > resolution to something like 1280x1024. That all works great, until I > decide to switch to the console, and then the display fades to white and > I have to power off the machine without a shutdown :-( > > So, as to my question.. Does anyone have a system like this running at a > resolution like what I am looking for? As to my system setup. I am > running 4.4-STABLE built on December 19, with XFree86 4.1.0 patchlevel > 7. > > TIA > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message