Yesterday at 11:26pm, Wei-shi Tsai expounded: ++ I have a flat screen monitor. Unfortunately, in text mode the ++ characters become extremely distorted. Therefore, I've been running ++ Linux using framebuffer consoles.
The characters in text mode are distorted since the text mode is 640x480 (I think). Your monitor is not. So the letters are scaled and distorted. You can put vga=ask in your kernel command line (in LILO) to pick the video mode on boot. You really want to read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/svga.txt if you want to fix that problem. As for the refresh rate, I am no expert, but you shouldn't be able to damage the screen, since LCDs don't really have refresh rates (there is no electron beam). (The LCD refresh rate has to do with the A/D converter -- some higher end LCDs and video cards can connect to each other digitally.) So if the video card outputs 55 Hz and the LCD expects 60 Hz, your screen will probably flicker at something like 12 Hz. (I think.) This paragraph, however, is mostly speculation. -Paul -- What makes the universe so hard to comprehend is that there's nothing to compare it with. _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
