Re: Dell Inspiron 8100 text screen
On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 22:07, Daniel D Jones wrote:
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> I have a Dell Inspiron 8100. Getting testing installed was pretty
> straightforward except for X. X took a bit of finagaling, in part because of
> the GeForce 2 video card and in part because of the LCD screen. When I
> initially got X going, it came up in a small box in the center of the screen.
> It rather looked as though you'd taken the horizontal and vertical size
> adjustments and set them both to minimum. Once I got XF86Config-4 properly
> configured for the LCD, X takes up the full screen. However, if I drop to a
> text mode, it now comes up in that same squished box. I have no idea where
On my i8000 you can press Fn-F7 (font) and it will toggle to a larger
font size that fills the whole screen.
I'm not sure whether this is persistent but mine seems to be.
P.S. When you upgraded did you go from Ximian Gnome to the standard
Gnome packages? I'm thinking of upgrading soon and am wondering about
that step.
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