On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 09:40:41PM +, Mick wrote
Leave KMS enabled and add the parameter:
video=1024x768 (or whatever suits your screen and taste)
to your kernel line. You shouldn't need vesafb, uvesa or any other
drivers to achieve this.
Thanks very much. That works. I feel
On Saturday 05 February 2011 17:10:15 Walter Dnes wrote:
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 09:40:41PM +, Mick wrote
Leave KMS enabled and add the parameter:
video=1024x768 (or whatever suits your screen and taste)
to your kernel line. You shouldn't need vesafb, uvesa or any other
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 12:10:15PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote
As they say in the infomercials but wait, there's more. My monitor
supports 1280x720 and 1280x1024 modes. Using screen I should be able
to do splitscreen mode with 2 sessions side-by-each.
That is going to have to wait a while.
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 06:43:32PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
The current ebuild is screen-4.0.3, and up to screen-4.0.3-r4 (with
~everything) shows up after an emerge --sync. I can
./configure --with-various-options make make install with the
best of them (not that I know what I'm
On 02/03/2011 07:07 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
Back around 2000, we still had CRT monitors, not LCDs. The cheaper
monitors shimmered badly in GUI mode and were hard on my eyes. One of
the factors that drove me to linux back then was that, except for web
browsing and spreadsheets, I could do
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
Recently, however, video drivers for both Intel and ATI have switched
over to some brain-dead framebuffer mode that renders regular
consolefonts microscopic. Also the line lengths are ridiculously long.
Sounds like KMS
On Thursday 03 February 2011 06:07:55 Walter Dnes wrote:
Back around 2000, we still had CRT monitors, not LCDs. The cheaper
monitors shimmered badly in GUI mode and were hard on my eyes. One of
the factors that drove me to linux back then was that, except for web
browsing and spreadsheets,
Back around 2000, we still had CRT monitors, not LCDs. The cheaper
monitors shimmered badly in GUI mode and were hard on my eyes. One of
the factors that drove me to linux back then was that, except for web
browsing and spreadsheets, I could do most of my work in a true text
console (and I
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