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Subject: Re: laptop freebsd display not filling whole screen
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On 2012/02/15 10:25, Fbsd8 wrote:
> I installed 9.0 on a Toshiba laptop. The Freebsd console only fills a
> small box in the center of the screen. I found nothing in the handbook
> about this so I am asking here.
>
> How do I get the console to fill to whole laptop screen?

I met it earlier a few times on various notebooks and
I think it has nothing to do with FreeBSD per se. On
some notebooks I changed it via *BIOS* settings but
usually didn't care at all - I use X sessions mostly...

HTH
Oli