It has to do with the way that the display stretches fonts. You may want to set it up to use a framebuffer for text mode. I forget how to do this, as I always just get everything going in XFree86 instead. I'm sure there's a howto somewhere, though.
John Hebert wrote: >I have the same problem with my Sony Vaio FX390P. It uses the Intel 810 >graphics chip. I've looked around for a fix but haven't any yet. > > > >>I just recently installed RedHat Linux 7.3 on my laptop, and the area >>everything is displayed in is very small. A normal text console takes >>up 1/3 of the height of my screen and 1/2 of the width of the screen. >>Does anyone know how to make it take up the entire screen? >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>General mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://host19.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> >> > >~~ >John Hebert > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://host19.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
