Re: Debian 3.0 and Toshiba 1800-314
--- Luis Mendes <l.mendes@ic.ac.uk> wrote: >
> Hi,
>
> I installed Debian 3.0 in my new laptop last night
> and everything
> seems to be working almost fine. (I have not tried X
> however). The
> only things which I don't like is that the console
> only occupies a
> fraction of the display at the center. Wht's going
> on here and how do
> I get a full size console?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Luis
>
Hi Luis
I have a Toshiba Satellite 1800 and getting X to work
was a bit of a chore. The Video card is a Cyberblade
but the Xfree86 driver for this card does not work in
Xfree86 4.1 (I have heard it does in 4.2 but there are
no Debian packages for this yet).
This means to get X to work you will need to compile
your own kernel and compile in framebuffer support.
Using the Framebuffer driver with X will work
reasonably well although it is a bit slow. If you
have a search on Google you will find there are quite
a few people who have documented how to do this and
posted it onto the web.
As for the console, once you have built your new
kernel with framebuffer support the console will
utilise your whole screen.
Hope this helps.
Cheers Geoff
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