On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, minh van le wrote:
> 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.
I don't know about Toshies, but IBM Thinkpads have a utility which allows
you to select something like "Expand Screen" which is needed to be set to
YES for Linux before the text will occupy all the screen.
Does the Toshie have something similar?
DaZZa
P.S. Fix your line wrap character. Your line lengths stink! :-)
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