From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 22 15:48:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45A9637B400 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 15:48:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E62E943E9E for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 15:48:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g7MMm8Nl046556; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 17:48:08 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 17:48:08 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "C. A. Daelhousen" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thank you all Message-ID: <20020822224808.GA34104@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200208221751.KAA18198@eskimo.com> <20020822180424.GB17838@dan.emsphone.com> <20020822183956.A69747@selvirjin.alltel.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020822183956.A69747@selvirjin.alltel.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Aug 22), C. A. Daelhousen said: > On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 01:04:25PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Aug 22), Ross Lippert said: > > > Secondly, when I boot just to the console, or run X I just get > > > this tiny screen about half the dimensions of the physical screen > > > bordered by black. It seems that this is something people have > > > had happen on toshiba's. Anyhow I guess my question is > > > > Most laptops do this, actually, since a standard VGA console is > > 640x400 and no laptops are that resolution anymore :). There's > > probably a hotkey to toggle "scale/noscale". On Sony and Dell > > laptops, it's +F. The correct fix for X is to specify your > > laptop's native resolution in your XF86Config file. > > If you have syscons and "options SC_PIXEL_MODE" configured, then you can > use vidcontrol to get an 800x600 console. But even 800x600 is way too small for the current batch of laptops. The Dell Latitude C800's we get have a native resolution of 1400x1050 :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message