RE: Laptop install, console screen small

2001-11-16 Thread Lars Weber
console at 256 colors. hth, Lars Weber > -Original Message- > From: Craig Coles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 10:58 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: Laptop install, console screen small > > > In this case X is no

Re: Laptop install, console screen small

2001-11-15 Thread Alan Shutko
Craig Coles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In this case X is not a problem, just the tty consoles. I can't get them to > fill the entire screen. I do get all 80x25, 80x34, or whatever resolution, > just in a reduced screen size. Either turn on display stretching in your bios, or use a framebuffe

RE: Laptop install, console screen small

2001-11-15 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| In this case X is not a problem, just the tty consoles. I can't | get them to | fill the entire screen. I do get all 80x25, 80x34, or whatever | resolution, | just in a reduced screen size. | | Any ideas? How about using frame buffer. There was a discussion about the various tweakages back in

RE: Laptop install, console screen small

2001-11-15 Thread Craig Coles
In this case X is not a problem, just the tty consoles. I can't get them to fill the entire screen. I do get all 80x25, 80x34, or whatever resolution, just in a reduced screen size. Any ideas? -Craig -Original Message- Subject: Re: Laptop install, console screen small You ca

Re: Laptop install, console screen small

2001-11-15 Thread D.
You can try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and during that choose 1024x768 as the window size.. I'm guess that you accepted the options that it provided to you when you first did your setup. Or you can go in an edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and in there add the 1024x768 option. That is the screen