Re: Dell Inspiron 8100 text screen
Hi Daniel!
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Daniel D Jones wrote:
> 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
I suppose you use framebuffer.
Unfortunately vesa-framebuffer can handle only 1280x1024. Your screen
can handle 1600x1280. That's what you see, when you switch between X
and Con.
Press the Fn-F7 key. This should raise the fonts back to fullscreen.
> after getting X right. If I boot into Windows and pop up a DOS console, this
> does not happen. Thanks in advance for any assistance.
DOS doesn't know anything about framebuffer!
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