Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 21:23:49 -0800 From: Eric =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hedstr=F6m?= <erich@ucsd.edu> To: Ben Lovett <blovett@bsdguru.com> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8k and ATI Rage Mobility 128 Message-ID: <3C37DF65.4060204@ucsd.edu> References: <20020105190148.A7553@bsdguru.com>
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With LCD screens the dots are fixed in size, so lowering the resolution doesn't make the pixels larger. If I lower the resolution on my Thinkpad it just uses the middle (say) 1280x1024 pixels, and I get a black border around the edge. Eric Ben Lovett wrote: > I have been running FreeBSD on my I8K since June of 2001, with XFree86 > 4.x on a ATI Rage Mobility 128 video card. And, because I opted to get > the 1600x1200 resolution screen I have been running at that since then. > But... because I tend to value my eyesight, I would like to decrease the > resolution to something like 1280x1024. That all works great, until I > decide to switch to the console, and then the display fades to white and > I have to power off the machine without a shutdown :-( > > So, as to my question.. Does anyone have a system like this running at a > resolution like what I am looking for? As to my system setup. I am > running 4.4-STABLE built on December 19, with XFree86 4.1.0 patchlevel > 7. > > TIA > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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