Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 12:44:36 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jeff Reed <jreed@BSDI.COM> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: X11 Screen width short by 1.5" on laptop Message-ID: <19980221124436.55518@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980220085754.8490B-100000@corp.BSDI.COM>; from Jeff Reed on Fri, Feb 20, 1998 at 09:06:56AM -0700 References: <19980220155520.62333@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSI.3.95.980220085754.8490B-100000@corp.BSDI.COM>
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On Fri, 20 February 1998 at 9:06:56 -0700, Jeff Reed wrote: >>> Standard VGA 640x480 is what I started with. >>> Super VGA 800x600 Gave me the same results. >> >> What happened when you tried ctrl-alt-keypad+? > > I apologize. I forgot to tell you what happened with this. Frankly, while > I was trying it last night, I could not get ctrl-alt-kaypad+ to do > anything but drop me out of X. I tried again this morning. I was able to > toggle between modes, but had no success until I switched Monitor to Super > VGA 1024x768@87Hz, 800x600@56Hz. This did the trick and I now have a fully > functional X display. Thanks a million. You're welcome. >>> Many apologies for the hassles here. And I want to thank you for all >>> the assistance you have been giving me on this. >> >> You're welcome. Just out of interest, are you really running FreeBSD >> on this machine? What does Rob think of that? > > Yes, I am running v2.2.5 which I ordered and received, with subsription. > I also ordered your book, which has been very informative and helpful > through the other operations I have undertaken.. Oh. You should have told me that. It's all in the book in much more detail. Take a look at page 122 and following. > Rob does not know directly. However, my immediate manager does. On > the company side, I am helping to keep up with various improvements > to FreeBSD to assist sales. They are asked about different ports, > etc. on a regular basis and need technical feedback on them and > recommendations which they can make to the customer as well as to > engineering. On a personal side, I find many of the ported tools > useful desktop and sys/net analysis tools. These, I will by and by > recommend for inclusion in our contributed tree. In case others don't understand what this is about, Jeff works for BSDI, the makers of BSD/OS, the $ version of 4.4BSD. > I hope that answers your questions. I must say again how very grateful > I am for the assistance in resolving this problem. I will endeavor to be a > low impact user on the list :-) I hope we can count on getting feedback on what you don't like so much about FreeBSD :-) Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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