From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Apr 24 8:49:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from rip.psg.com (rip.psg.com [147.28.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 772D914F74 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 1999 08:49:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from randy@psg.com) Received: from localhost (1283 bytes) by rip.psg.com via sendmail with P:stdio/R:inet_resolve/T:smtp (sender: ) (ident using unix) id for ; Sat, 24 Apr 1999 08:49:14 -0700 (PDT) (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #1 built 1999-Apr-1) Message-Id: Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 08:49:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Randy Bush MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Patrick Seal Cc: FreeBSD Laptoppers Subject: Re: i shrunk my screen! References: Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> 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? > > 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 that's the syscons driver. this is more basic, like the mode the darn chip's in. it's 80x25, just very small chars. randy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message