i'm currently having difficulty doing any development work on my "bleeding edge"
laptop. if the fonts were the right size, no prob (!) - X can even wait a while.
the problem i'm having is that my 80x25 default console fonts aren't proportional, or
scaled rather, to the 14.1" active TFT LCD monitor that i have. this is causing some
strife because i'm looking at 12pt font inside a less than 10" box/frame centered on
the screen.
i've had a couple of suggestions, mainly that i enable framebuffer support. so i do,
and pass vga=ask to the kernel and try various modes. but this still doesn't scale the
fonts to the right size to fit in the 14" screen.
another suggestion was that i hook up a CRT monitor. what's the point i thought :>
has anybody had this problem with their laptop and can offer any suggestions would be
appreciated. i haven't fully read all the framebuffer documentation.
specifications:
Toshiba Digital Media Engineering Corp.
http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/linux/eng/spec.php3?model=PA-SA70
Satellite 4360 Specifications
Exclusive model for Japan.
Model Name/No. Satellite 4360/PA-SA70
Processor Pentium-* 700 Mhz
Memory (MAX) 320 mb
HDD 12 gb
Display 15.0" TFT 1024x768
Display controller S3 Savage IX
Video Ram 8 mb
Sound 3D PCI
PC Card controller Toshiba ToPIC
IrDA IrDA 1.1
Modem n/a (obtainable from http://../kharker/linux-laptop/)
LAN not installed
Last update 07-10-2000
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