Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 17:48:08 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: "C. A. Daelhousen" <cd9@buffalo.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thank you all Message-ID: <20020822224808.GA34104@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20020822183956.A69747@selvirjin.alltel.net> References: <200208221751.KAA18198@eskimo.com> <20020822180424.GB17838@dan.emsphone.com> <20020822183956.A69747@selvirjin.alltel.net>
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In the last episode (Aug 22), C. A. Daelhousen said: > 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 <Fn>+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. But even 800x600 is way too small for the current batch of laptops. The Dell Latitude C800's we get have a native resolution of 1400x1050 :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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