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Re: Presentation



On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 08:11:56PM +0200, Daniel Payno wrote:
> Hola Alexander...
> 
> dec?as, el 12:56-21/abr/2001:
> > what you need (if you really need this) is to set up the framebuffer
> > stuff.  However in my opinion this is a *very* silly thing mainly because
> > it sucks up those CPU cycles as if they are going out of fashion!  What I
> > would recommend is that you use the screen 'expanding' feature of your
> > laptop (IBM included *everything* you just have to find it) and find a
> > nice text console that works in the expanding resolution.  Usually vga=1
> > (aka vga=extended) being added to your lilo.conf file will do nicely.
> Oh, now I realize that I forgot to mention that I've tried both attacks to the
> problem. FB didn't work (don't ask me why, Not VESA 2.0 compliant?).
> Nonethelesss, it didn't convince me really, for the same things yo say.. so,
> doesn't matter.

Another approach to take would be to try svgatextmode. I have had good
success using svgatextmode to fill the screen of my old toshiba
satelite pro 400CS. 

your pal dave

-- 
Dave Thayer
Denver, Colorado USA
dave@thayer-boyle.com



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