Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:09:00 -0500 From: Steve Fettig <lists@stevenfettig.com> To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Console Display Size and X 4.2 Problems on Thinkpad 770ED Message-ID: <3D0F4D0C.6090804@stevenfettig.com> References: <20020618060143.W61592-100000@small.pukruppa.de>
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Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Steve Fettig wrote: > > >>I am working on reviving an old machine that has been my workhorse for >>years and just installed FreeBSD 4.6-Release onto it and am having two >>problems. >>The regular, non-x, screen is 640x480 in the middle of a 14" screen and >>I can't figure out how to get it to "stretch" like it normally would on >>a monitor to fill up the whole screen... Any mini- how-do-ya' do it >>guides for this? (Yes, I've checked the bios, etc. and there doesn't >>seem to be anything in there allowing me to change this...) > > Did you have a look at > # vidcontrol > and its man ? > Perhaps your graphics card is broken. Try a different one. > > Regards, > > Uli. Uli, Thanks for the suggestion on vidcontrol -- I am currently going through the man page and think this should do the trick. I need to add an option to the kernel, but I needed to customize it anyway. Thanks again! Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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