From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Apr 24 8:42:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from hyperhost.net (ether.lightrealm.com [207.159.132.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6038214F74 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 1999 08:42:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patseal@hyperhost.net) Received: from p1.a8.du.radix.net (p1.a8.du.radix.net [207.192.132.129]) by hyperhost.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA02301; Sat, 24 Apr 1999 11:42:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 11:41:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Seal To: Randy Bush Cc: FreeBSD Laptoppers Subject: Re: i shrunk my screen! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org My Dell Latitude does that too. It's supposed to do that, but mine has a button I can push that streches it across the screen. Try some different video modes. #man vidcontrol ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make | really crappy operating systems." Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds hosting and Design http://www.freebsd.org - http://www.linux.org On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Randy Bush wrote: > somehow i have gotten my vaio 505tx into a mode where > o at boot and without X or Win98, the screen is much smaller and in the > center of the LCD. i.e. the display area is about half LCD size > o stays that way once logged in as a user, or running as root, or in > single user > o start X and it's fine, full screen > o run Win98 and it's fine > > it's kinda like i have the default video mode farbled. but i do not know > how to unfarble it. and i can find no FreeBSD or Win98 tools or hints. > > clues? > > randy > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message