On Sun, 07 Nov 2004, Charlie Zender wrote: > 1. The pcmcia card beeping is really loud and always evokes evil > stares from others in the library, airplan, etc.
That is probably something to fix kernel-side :( But if the PCMCIA stuff is a module that is being loaded by hotplug (ick), get the ALSA drivers to load first, they default to all channels muted :-) I assume the pc squeaker is routed through the soundcard, otherwise you would still get beeps from the PCMCIA drivers under X, I think. But since I do not use PCMCIA, I may be completely off-track here. > 2. My screen resolution is 1600x1200 but the console mode boots to a > puny 80x25 or 80x40 column-row format in the very center of the > screen, leaving large un-used margins around the screen. > I must often edit in console mode when X fails (e.g., updates break > the NVIDIA driver or whatever) so I want to increase the console > (text) mode to fill the screen (e.g., to 160x80). > How do I alther the text mode screen size? svgatextmode. Get the sid version, and apply my patch (which is on the BTS). You will get *extremely* readable and beautiful text modes if your nVidia chipset is anything like my GeForce2 MX400 and GeForce FX5700. Note that I have NOT ported all the laptop stuff from the xfree86 nv driver to svgatextmode, so it may or may not work well in a portable nVidia chipset driving a LCD. If it doesn't, send some data on what happens to the BTS and CC it to me. Beware that you may need to reboot the laptop to get your video back if svgatextmode misbehaves, so be ready for that the first time you try it, and do yourself a favour and edit /etc/init.d/svgatextmode and DISABLE it until you are sure it works right. The damn thing runs on runlevel S, which screws up even single-user mode... and booting in emergency mode is never funny. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
