Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 11:27:05 +0200 From: Frank Louwers <frank@student.rug.ac.be> To: "Gary T. Corcoran" <garycor@home.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Danny Howard <dannyman@tellme.com>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: text console size on IBM TP 240? Message-ID: <20000930112705.B32706@student.rug.ac.be> In-Reply-To: <39D54DA8.AD62EB49@home.com>; from garycor@home.com on Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 10:19:20PM -0400 References: <200009292223.e8TMN6A60612@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <39D54DA8.AD62EB49@home.com>
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> 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
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