> > My hamm-equipped laptop has an 800x600 screen. When in console mode > > it uses only the middle of the screen for an 80x24 display -- even > > though there's room on the screen for at least 120x32. > > try adding vga=extended or vga=ask to your boot-prompt
I tried that a few weeks back and got tiny text scrunched into the middle of my screen. But last night a friend with the same laptop showed me the (hardware-specific) key combination to force text mode to use the whole screen. Once that's done, 'vga=ask' in lilo.conf permits me to choose from a whole range of no-longer-scrunched options, all of them better than 24x80. I wonder if the bios would allow me to change the text mode, or is that truly a machine-specific thing? No matter: I'm happy now. Thanks to all! --Eric +----------------------+ | non-work .sig needed | +----------------------+
