On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 03:31, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Apr 01, 2002, Dale Hair ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I reinstalled woody on my wife's thinkpad and now I only have an 8" > > display on the 14" screen. How do I fix this? > > There's a set of utilities for the ThinkPad which allow you to access > BIOS features which, conveniently enough, aren't accessible at the boot > prompt. Naturally, the tools that come with the ThinkPad work only > under Legacy MS Windows. > > However ;-), there's a Debian package: > > tpctl - ThinkPad configuration tools for GNU/Linux > > ...you want to configure the screen to stretch. > I installed thinkpad-base and tpctl. Now when I run tpctl --x I get tpctl: System error message is: No such device tpctl: Can't open device file /dev/thinkpad with flags O_RONLY. Exiting.
ls-l /dev/thinkpad lrwxrwxrwx 1 root thinkpad 5 Apr 3 07:36 /dev/thinkpad -> smapi ls -l /dev/smapi crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 10, 170 Apr 3 07:36 dev/smapi I had X in full screen before the system crash (previous post, can't start gdm or login as user,). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

