Re: shrunken console on laptop problem

[rob <rob.rice@fuse.net>]

check the setup program built in to the lap top I have a think pad that 
will center the display on a small part of the screen if there are 
display options look for a full screen setting ( I think thay do this to 
save power)

James Miller wrote:

>I'm having some display problems on a couple of laptops: one has Gentoo,
>the other Debian Sid.  The difference in the nature of the problem between
>the two laptops is that one has an Xwindows display that looks fine
>(Gentoo), while I'm still working on getting X going (hoping to set up
>Xfbdev) on the other.  But the aspect of the problem the two share
>concerns when the computers are in console mode - like when they're
>booting.  Until the Gentoo machine gets to the login window for X, the
>console part of the screen where text is showing as boot messages scroll
>by occupies only a small portion that the center of the screen, rather
>than taking up the whole screen.  It's not as though anything is cut off:
>I see all the text there that I think I should be seeing.  But it's as
>though the console has been shrunken down to occupy a small portion at the
>center of the screen, with just blank black surrounding it.  This display
>is meant to function at 1024x768, btw.  The other laptop does the exact
>same thing: there is a console in the center of the screen with just blank
>black surrounding it.  As I said, I haven't got any sort of X going on
>this machine yet, so I'm forced to use this small portion of the screen as
>a console when I'm trying to do things at the command line or using mc or
>whatever other console apps I run.  This laptop's screen does 800x600,
>btw.
>
>Can anyone onlist inform me as to the nature of the problem I'm
>confronting?  Just as well, can anyone offer suggestions about how I might
>make the console take up the entire screen, rather than just a portion of
>it?
>
>Thanks, James
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