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Date:      Thu, 22 Aug 2002 17:48:08 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        "C. A. Daelhousen" <cd9@buffalo.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Thank you all
Message-ID:  <20020822224808.GA34104@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020822183956.A69747@selvirjin.alltel.net>
References:  <200208221751.KAA18198@eskimo.com> <20020822180424.GB17838@dan.emsphone.com> <20020822183956.A69747@selvirjin.alltel.net>

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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 <Fn>+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

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