From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rob Subject: Re: shrunken console on laptop problem Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 20:45:58 -0400 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40B68BC6.1010202@fuse.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs